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What a weirdly aggressive post about someone you never met, about a situation and company that you know very little about.
by Hermitian909 4y ago
What a weirdly aggressive post about someone you never met, about a situation and company that you know very little about.
- antonvs 4y agoIt was a response to a ridiculous claim about the capabilities of bootcamp grads. Sounds like you’ve bought into your friend’s BS. Perhaps he believed it too. But I’m pointing out that it’s much more likely that the bootcamp wasn’t producing quality developers, and became unsustainable once the market became a bit more discriminating.
- Hermitian909 4y ago> a ridiculous claim about the capabilities of bootcamp grads Having met many of these grads, and lived through that phase of hiring, I think it's a lot less ridiculous if you imagine the early bootcamp grads from my friends program as someone who's e.g. a senior mechanical engineer with a degree from good university. These people have strong technical and soft skills and were unusual at the time in that they were already productive in stacks that companies were using. By 2015, you couldn't fill a bootcamp with these kinds of people, so graduate quality is dropping at the same time that universities up their game and start including classes that teach some basic SWE skills. I don't think we actually disagree that the value-add was never that great as the program mostly only helpful to people who already had most of the skills necessary to be a good engineer.