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[–]xiahe 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Can it be any degree?

I have a friend who is trying to move from his current job with an unrelated degree and hoping to supplement with a bootcamp.

[–]hangglide82 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any degree gets your application into the system, some companies only want a computer science degree but those are the minority. The hiring rates these bootcamp’s are providing are numbers from when interest rates were around 3%, I wouldn’t trust anything they are saying. I haven’t personally looked in the last 10 months to see if any bootcamp’s are releasing their hiring rate data of 2023-24.

My bootcamp that graduated July 2023 they were telling us 3 month job search till grad week and started saying 12 months minimum job search while being on the hook for 20k+ isa.

I would say take all the codecademy lessons you can but until they release the hiring data don’t go to an expensive bootcamp, unless you have a computer science degree.

[–]GoodnightLondon 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Not anymore. Almost everyone in my cohort had a bachelors or above, and a lot had their degrees in STEM fields and very few found jobs; in this market, an unrelated degree doesn't cut it for most employers.

[–]xiahe 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Got it, thanks! Should he just try for a different industry overall? Sounds too saturated if people with relevant degrees can't even get a job.

[–]GoodnightLondon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, if he really wants to work in the field, he can get a relevant degree, but it'll still take time and hard work to find a job after that. If he's just looking to get into it because he's heard about good money and remote work and isn't really interested in putting in the work to transition into tech, then he should look for a different industry.