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Its the bootcamps that worry me and the endless YouTubers preaching how they became a so and so after 3 months. But yeah nothing is secure.
by saos 4y ago
Its the bootcamps that worry me and the endless YouTubers preaching how they became a so and so after 3 months.
But yeah nothing is secure.
- 908B64B197 4y ago> Its the bootcamps that worry me and the endless YouTubers preaching how they became a so and so after 3 months. At one point we broadened our hiring pipeline to grads of a local bootcamp (their sales rep were apparently very convincing). About two thirds of the candidates couldn't write three lines of code on a whiteboard.
- saos 4y agoI don't have anything against bootcamp but I see common pattern: 1. They are in it for money 2. They are in it for the lifestyle 3. They suffer big on by imposter syndrome The programmers I've worked with over the years were just passionate about programming and thats why they entered the field. They spend years refining the craft. But, now it has drastically changed. The next generation what it "now". Everything "now". They want to buy a home "now". They want new shows "now".
- rchaud 4y agoI think the pendulum has swung back the other way on bootcamps, they're seen with the same kind of awful ROI as a college degree in a non-marketable discipline. I'd worry more about the Youtube influencers you mention. They've littered my YT front page with all kinds of promises that just remind me of previous gold rushes...dropshipping, crypto, and now AI.
- likeabbas 4y agoBootcamps are great for people with non-CS STEM backgrounds. I'm happy to have engineers of other disciplines come into the field. But I do think companies should try to raise the bar of who they hire. Other engineering disciplines have government licenses to get. It would be nice if companies required Software Engineers to do the same.