I think bootcamps were once effective at getting non-STEM folks a foot in the door, mainly in the modern web-dev space. I have only encountered bootcampers who

I think bootcamps were once effective at getting non-STEM folks a foot in the door, mainly in the modern web-dev space. I have only encountered bootcampers who work on modern web stacks. They tend to stay silo'd there, unless they are very motivated to do a lot of self-learning. A bootcamp is 6-9 months, but even an undergrad CS degree is 4 full years, and probably more intense than a bootcamp day-to-day. And even they are struggling to get entry-level jobs right now. So that's what you'd be competing with. I think you should save your money on the bootcamp and just self-learn computer science. There are so, so many free resources out there[^1]. It's easier than ever to make personal projects and post them to GitHub. Share what you're learning publicly - start a blog, and write. A diploma is a proxy for the knowledge you've supposedly acquired - without that, you need a way to show employers that you know things. [^1]: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science https://github.com/ossu/computer-science