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I've talked to a lot of people coming out of coding bootcamps and I've also talked to or know quite a few who left the industry. I think the main issue is that
by janosdebugs 3y ago
I've talked to a lot of people coming out of coding bootcamps and I've also talked to or know quite a few who left the industry. I think the main issue is that you get tossed right into the grind after the camp, doing your sprints, being basically a high stress factory worker producing code as ordered. You never get to experience the joy of creation, experimentation, and you never get hired for less conveyor belt jobs due to the lack of interesting passion projects and things to talk about.
- gorbachev 3y agoImagine that, software development is actual work! Having said that, yes, it's tiresome, but it doesn't have to be that way. People with influence at your workplace can change things to be different/better/more fun. You can change things for yourself. If the workplace is nothing but a grind, people at that workplace have made a choice, implicitly or explicitly, to make it so. It's not that way everywhere, in my experience not even at majority of software development jobs.
- janosdebugs 3y agoI've seen quite a few bootcamps where the future employer funded the camp for people who finally got a job. Needless to say, these places were set up for maximum efficiency. Sure, a few minor changes can be made, but the core of the work isn't changing.