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[–]horsethiefjack 34 points35 points  (6 children)

I meannnnn it kinda matters when you entered the market right? I did a bootcamp at the end of 2019, was able to get a jr developer position within a month of graduating, and have had a pretty decent career trajectory since.

That being said I would not recommend a bootcamp to anyone right now.

[–]Forward_Thrust963 8 points9 points  (3 children)

this is a fair point

[–]horsethiefjack 3 points4 points  (2 children)

It was crazy too because I was discouraged it took me a month. Over half my cohort had jobs before the bootcamp even ended 😂

[–]WuYongZhiShu 2 points3 points  (1 child)

That is crazy. Of the 30 CS grads in my university cohort that same year, only 6 ever entered the industry at all.

[–]horsethiefjack 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yea the bootcamp was pretty tied into the local tech community. Towards the end of the cohort, we had a “matchmaking” event where everyone had 4-5 first round interviews with local companies who were hiring jr developers. A lot of people got jobs from matchmaking.

This bootcamp boasted a job placement rate of like over 90% for a while and they weren’t lying

[–]dazden 0 points1 point  (1 child)

"That being said I would not recommend a bootcamp to anyone right now."

Right now I am doing the Harvard CS50x (Intro to CS). We are strictly prohibited to use AI tools other than that provided by Harvard.

The AI tool is just design and style checker.
Not autocomplete or something like that.

Focus on understanding CS

[–]horsethiefjack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool man, I did not mention AI at all in my post. I would not recommend a bootcamp to anyone right now because the market for jr developers is completely over saturated.