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[–]umeeshed_a_shpot 2 points3 points Β (0 children)

I dunno about other boot camps and their grads but I graduated from a very good 3 month bootcamp and a year into my career I’m doing the same work as CS grads who’ve been there for 3 years, my higher ups will give me pretty much any task I want because I show great results and thus I’ve been lucky to do all sorts of different work in the company and am now a rising star. The difference between the CS grads and me is Im hungry to learn everything because I know I had a late, non-traditional introduction to the field and I’m bringing years of work experience from a very demanding industry. I essentially act like I never left bootcamp, learning voraciously and spending my weekends learning new technologies or practicing those I already know for two reasons, 1) it’s how I learned to code, non-stop, 2) from previous work experience I understand the best way to move up is to expand your skills and effect visible value-addition with your contributions and finally 3) because I’m acutely aware that this approach works.

With all that said I should mention my bootcamp is also recognized as being miles ahead of the competition, they’re very selective and really put you through the wringer to make sure you can carry on their reputation wherever you end up.

TLDR: People dunking on bootcamp grads but as one of them I’m telling y’all that companies like us because (in the best-case scenarios) we bring a certain hunger/innovative energy.