With the flood of boot camp graduates etc on one hand, cs grads , not being able to find work after sending out hundreds of applications — what would you consid

With the flood of boot camp graduates etc on one hand, cs grads , not being able to find work after sending out hundreds of applications — what would you consider a “software engineer” in terms of merit for being sought after like you mention? Open source ? Have sent a large codebase to prod successfully? Or just have the basics of modern workflows with DevOps /cicd / web / basic leetcode