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I mean really you already nailed it on the "anyone can clean a toilet or cook a burger". This is only from my own experience working in a chain restaurant kitchen, but to a pretty high level. You don't need to be a great chef or anything to be a standard line cook, even if you don't know how to cook they can teach you in one or two training days, everything is timed to the second and all the equipment beeps to let you know when it's done. I was 18 at the time with no experience, my interview was "what days can you work, and are you comfortable staying until the bar closes" and for every one of me there were 30 people ready to take over when someone quit, including high school kids and people fresh out of jail without many other options.

I'm a few years older than you it sounds like but likewise, I found FCC through reddit and finished my front end cert (back when it was still AngularJS based). It definitely wasn't easy getting my first job, and I was lucky to have helpful bosses/mentors to help me bridge the gap from "self taught" to senior dev, but it showed me that it's definitely possible to make it in this industry with a bootcamp or other non-traditional background. I agree with the tweets that you should take graduating/hiring numbers with a grain of salt and be weary of income sharing, but I think the people in this thread totally dismissing bootcamps as a valid path to development are off base.

Economics falls under the business umbrella at most US universities. An Economics degree will almost certainly have included finance, accounting, and marketing classes. Some schools, like my own, don't even differentiate between majors on the granted degree - any students in any of those majors just get a BSBA despite the different focus.

Wharton is similar in that all undergrad degrees are in "economics" even though students still select a major.

Just my two cents, but as a candidate I much prefer the tests to a whiteboard. I've had interview tests for a majority of my recent (senior level) positions in NYC, but the questions generally aren't to this extreme, certainly not basis for a new startup level problems.

More like "we've laid out an API contract, implement these 3 endpoints in a language you like along with these few extra small requirements and some unit tests". Usually takes 2-3 hours and I think it's a more fair assessment of my work and at least I get to use my own environment and work on my own time with tools I know rather than with someone sitting over my shoulder and a marker. It also helps drive the discussion during in-person interviews away from the binary tree puzzle type questions and focuses more on design decisions and other considerations I took in to account.

The major difference here being that congestion pricing is only going into effect in Manhattan south of the park, where public transport is absolutely a suitable option.

Not available at this exact moment, but looking to relocate to LA in 2020. Trying to put out some feelers/network a bit with people in the LA area or offering remote, ideally in fintech

Location: Currently NYC, looking to relocate to LA

Remote: Sure

Willing to Relocate: LA only

Technologies: Java/Spring, Python/Django/Flask, JS/React/Angular, AWS, have others as well but that is my current daily stack

Resume: ~4 years exp. Currently at Capital One. Previously at JPMorgan Chase. Full resume available on request

Email: [email protected]

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/hessproject

Just pointing out the number they're referring to

For the record I'm an LIC resident and generally opposed to Amazon under the proposed plan

That figure comes from the taxes paid by the people they employ

Yeah and I think there is definitely still a solid use case for jQuery. No need to buy a yacht if all you need is a canoe.

Not OP but I work at a major bank and we have casual dress/ping pong/a game room. It's a pretty popular trend right now for major banks to build/buy offices specifically for tech and separating it from the suit and tie culture of the HQs

I work on a SOX compliant project, it works pretty much as described. As a developer I have no access to prod, relying on other teams to make system changes and creating a lengthy mandated paper trail for the SOX audit team to look over. Not to say there aren't headaches with the approach, but thankfully at a big enough organization it's become a relatively smooth process.

Any plans to include compatibility outside of Oculus Go?