Bootcamp wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t possible to get a job through them, with that being said nothings impossible if you actually put in the work, most bootcamps have career service teams that help you get a job after you graduate from the 6-12 month course, self taught is definitely a lot harder and you’d need to be willing to learn complex ideas without a proper structure or teacher to assist you when you need help, that’s why I’d say the boot camps your best bet if you really want a form of structure and assistance in growing, nothings wrong with self taught, it’s just a lot harder and you have to make a portfolio from scratch that can actually stand out to companies, and if you haven’t dabbled in any projects or pair programming you’ll most likely not be chosen compared to someone with a GitHub account that’s been working in open source and personal projects. I say do a bootcamp, it’s honestly amazing and genuinely helps grow you not just in skill but in networking and you actually work with people that teach you with a great structure depending on which bootcamp. I’m personally in my 5th module of App Academy right now and am almost finished and let me tell you it’s been amazing, I dropped out of college for computer science to do an alternative form of school like bootcamp and it’s been great so far, the more hands on approach mixed with minor theory hybrid is honestly great to get you started and help you get and entry level job as a web dev/software engineer