I have over a decade of experience, and have worked with:
- computer science and engineering graduates
- people with a degree, just on another fields
- 100% self-taught people
- coding camp graduates with varying degrees of computer science education.
From all of them, I have to say that working with the coding camp graduates was by far the most stressful. Some coding camp graduates come from computer science programs, some others come from zero... so you get a lot of variance.
Some are good, some others might show proficiency in some areas... but they might have a lot of important gaps in their knowledge. So you might want to make a 3x longer technical interview just for them, and start a broad conversation covering subjects they are expected to understand.
Now, if you come from a camp, or are self-taught, or even if not... if you want to assess your knowledge I would suggest the following book: the IEEE SWEBOK (Software engineering Body of Knowledge). It's a summary of topics in Software engineering, and points you to other books in case you want to learn more. Now, you can use this book to assess your strengths and weaknesses.
- computer science and engineering graduates
- people with a degree, just on another fields
- 100% self-taught people
- coding camp graduates with varying degrees of computer science education.
From all of them, I have to say that working with the coding camp graduates was by far the most stressful. Some coding camp graduates come from computer science programs, some others come from zero... so you get a lot of variance.
Some are good, some others might show proficiency in some areas... but they might have a lot of important gaps in their knowledge. So you might want to make a 3x longer technical interview just for them, and start a broad conversation covering subjects they are expected to understand.
Now, if you come from a camp, or are self-taught, or even if not... if you want to assess your knowledge I would suggest the following book: the IEEE SWEBOK (Software engineering Body of Knowledge). It's a summary of topics in Software engineering, and points you to other books in case you want to learn more. Now, you can use this book to assess your strengths and weaknesses.