[Warning Exremely Controversial Post Ahead]
I am currently working for a big corporate in the UK, who have been showing off their "pioneering" and "visionary" strategy to focus recruitment from code boot-camps.
All I can say is that as a senior developer, it has made my life misery. I've gone from writing code and producing features, to a full-time mentor and babysitter.
Half of the boot-camp graduates I believe have become coders for the wrong reasons like:
* developers have an easy life, getting into work whenever they choose
* they get to wear t-shirts and baggy jeans
* they get all the latest toys to play around with and shiny MacBooks
* I hated my last job, looking at developers on TV in these Silicon valley places looks like the dream life
* I am a single mother who was given the course for free
The others, have aptitude but are so inexperienced from their 3 month session that it will take them atleast two years before they can be fully independant engineers.
These codecamps are licenses to print money it seems, they charge the students a hefty fee for the course and companies then pay a recruitment fee at the end.
Needless to say, I will be leaving my company very soon to go to a place where there is a coding test and filtering to prevent most of these bootcampers from getting in.
Yes its snobby, but I didn't study and spend my student loan on my passion just so I can train up a bunch of people looking for the "easy life".
I am currently working for a big corporate in the UK, who have been showing off their "pioneering" and "visionary" strategy to focus recruitment from code boot-camps.
All I can say is that as a senior developer, it has made my life misery. I've gone from writing code and producing features, to a full-time mentor and babysitter. Half of the boot-camp graduates I believe have become coders for the wrong reasons like:
* developers have an easy life, getting into work whenever they choose
* they get to wear t-shirts and baggy jeans
* they get all the latest toys to play around with and shiny MacBooks
* I hated my last job, looking at developers on TV in these Silicon valley places looks like the dream life
* I am a single mother who was given the course for free
The others, have aptitude but are so inexperienced from their 3 month session that it will take them atleast two years before they can be fully independant engineers.
These codecamps are licenses to print money it seems, they charge the students a hefty fee for the course and companies then pay a recruitment fee at the end.
Needless to say, I will be leaving my company very soon to go to a place where there is a coding test and filtering to prevent most of these bootcampers from getting in.
Yes its snobby, but I didn't study and spend my student loan on my passion just so I can train up a bunch of people looking for the "easy life".