Likely the latter. I've done O(100) interviews at big tech companies. There are some folks who went through boot camps and have been valued teammates, but the

Likely the latter. I've done O(100) interviews at big tech companies. There are some folks who went through boot camps and have been valued teammates, but there are many orders of magnitude more who went through a boot camp hoping for a big paycheck and can't code their way out of a wet paper bag.