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At MaxwellHealth we've hired 5 graduates from the general assembly intensive program, 2 for QA and 3 for Dev. The one take away I've had is that they all are co
by securingsincity 11y ago
At MaxwellHealth we've hired 5 graduates from the general assembly intensive program, 2 for QA and 3 for Dev. The one take away I've had is that they all are coming with a baseline of knowledge that could let them contribute on day one.
For these 5 women, that was in addition to the soft skills necessary to succeed which I assume they all had before going into the program. I absolutely would hire them all again. We have interviewed several more from that program as well as other bootcamps who didn't exhibit those soft skills (bad attitudes, unable to communicate clearly what they worked on).
Most bootcamps have a group project, this for me is the key to whether they will be successful on your team. The group project shows from experience some of the challenges on working on a team - merge conflicts,how they manage time and how they work with others (who might not be on the same level or who have a bad attitude). One of our developers had worked on a team that had a team member drop out of the program mid way through their project. We happened to meet her teammate who told us that not only did they get it out on time but she had stepped up big time and made sure that all the features got out the door.
TL/DR : Hired 5 awesome women through General Assembly and would hire them all again.
- 27182818284 11y ago>to the soft skills necessary to succeed That's really interesting to hear, and something I haven't run into. Thus far my experience with developers from bootcamps has been underwhelming and over-hyped. ("We made our own Facebook in the program" is really "You made a guestbook-wall-web-app that saves data to a database using RoR") I could see how those soft skills could be extremely useful, and it is honestly something on a daily basis I have the most problems with in other developers.
- dreaminvm 11y agoI interviewed a bootcamp graduate recently that had similar claims but couldn't answer basic algorithm and design questions that high school students are being taught.
- xiaoma 11y agoGiven the gender ratio of students at General Assembly it would be improbable in the extreme that all five candidates you hired from them were women. Do you have some sort of explicit gender-based filtering in your hiring or recruiting process?
- crazypyro 11y agoIsn't that illegal?
- securingsincity 11y agoIt certainly would be.
- securingsincity 11y agoCertainly not, more just coincidence. I believe we made offers to men through GA but they had already lined up positions. However, depending on the class they can be pretty close to even on women to men. 2 of 3 hiring events i've been to in the last year were half men/women, one i'm pretty sure was more women then men (7/4? something like that) but that was in Boston at specific time so YMMV.
- panorama 11y agoWould you mind leaving your contact info in your profile? I'd like to get in touch.