I graduated from a bootcamp a year ago after working in the non-profit field for over a decade as a researcher and a social worker, and doing a few years of sta

I graduated from a bootcamp a year ago after working in the non-profit field for over a decade as a researcher and a social worker, and doing a few years of standing up wordpress sites for small non-profits and doing other IT support for them (setting up better CRMs, networking their office, setting up online donation systems, etc) A few things: 1) Bootcamp graduates shouldn't lead to poorly written codebases if they are being mentored properly. This means good code review at a minimum, as well as pairing, as well as onboarding and assigning appropriate tasks. If you are a company bringing on junior developers and just letting them loose in a codebase you are doing a disservice to those junior developers - they are going to feel exhausted and overwhelmed and lost most of the time - as well as to the rest of your team (trying to deal with their code) and your clients. 2) No one should be claiming that you can come out of a bootcamp with the same experience as someone that's been coding web software for 3+ years, but you come out with a solid foundation in a framework, with basic coding skills, and a hunger for learning more. 3) Demand for coders is still outstripping supply. Demand for experienced coders even more so. -- Arguably we are stuck with the 10 week-3 month model though. I think the 6 month model offered by Turing School makes a lot more sense, up to a year. I have a lot more thoughts about bootcamps but these will do for now.