I'm a hiring manager and coder. This last 12 months alone, i've interviewed 100+ engineers.
Bootcampers have these common problems, caused by the bootcamp's perverse incentives:
- Inflated sense of self worth. Often, they expect to be senior in 2 years, and consider themselves "experts" after leaving the bootcamp.
- Inflated entitlement, making placing them within teams difficult.
- Inflated sense of what the job market is like, how hard you have to work, and what an engineers learning curve looks like.
This is a generalisation, and there are outliers, but I find the above to be true. They're not students, they're customers, and they're lied to in order to make a sale.
I'm self taught, no qualifications; I have no objection to self-learning ... but the bootcamps do real damage.
Bootcampers have these common problems, caused by the bootcamp's perverse incentives:
- Inflated sense of self worth. Often, they expect to be senior in 2 years, and consider themselves "experts" after leaving the bootcamp. - Inflated entitlement, making placing them within teams difficult. - Inflated sense of what the job market is like, how hard you have to work, and what an engineers learning curve looks like.
This is a generalisation, and there are outliers, but I find the above to be true. They're not students, they're customers, and they're lied to in order to make a sale.
I'm self taught, no qualifications; I have no objection to self-learning ... but the bootcamps do real damage.