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I had the University of Minnesota's "Coding Bootcamp" reach out to me a couple years ago about possibly teaching a course. I was genuinely excited at the prospe
by donatj 2y ago
I had the University of Minnesota's "Coding Bootcamp" reach out to me a couple years ago about possibly teaching a course. I was genuinely excited at the prospect, it's always been something of a dream of mine to teach, so I scheduled a call. I never talk to recruiters but I wanted this.
The call very quickly went down hill and they became visibly angry when they found out I was not a NodeJS expert.
You reached out to me. I never represented myself as such. You likely saw on my credentials on LinkedIn which shows I have been writing JavaScript since the late 90s.
I hadn't entirely given up hope yet and said something a long the lines of "I am sure I could pick it up very quickly, I just haven't had the need so far" and the already visibly annoyed interviewer basically shouts "NO, we need someone who is an expert from day one!"
I apologized for wasting their time. They say that they will contact me if anything changes. I, a grown adult of near 40, went in to the call giddy and left tearing up a little. Good riddance.
- kstenerud 2y agoYou didn't waste their time. They wasted your time. They're the ones who contacted you and didn't check your abilities before scheduling a call.
- marcus0x62 2y agoDid you point out to this person that they contacted you, that you never claimed to be a Node expert, etc.? If so, did they have any sort of coherent response to that observation?
- donatj 2y agoYep, I sure did. I never got anything about why they reached out to me specifically or any such explanation. Just that they needed a "node expert". The call lasted maybe 5 minutes when they'd scheduled half an hour.
- marcus0x62 2y agoSounds like you dodged a bullet, even if you were a Node expert.
- uzername 2y agoThat's probably the same bootcamp that my friend took. I was really excited for them, but unfortunately the bootcamp was of poor quality. No enforced gates, no meaningful feedback on code quality, too little explicit mentoring on tech skills and soft skills, no support finding work at "graduation". That was in 2019, before the markets churned. Those courses were branded as UMN but we're reskinned Trilogy bootcamp materials, and there was ultimately no UMN staff involved except maybe an admin somewhere. Good riddance indeed.