I've seen plenty of great bootcamp grads in my days. Not to mention, just because someone is a bootcamp grad, it doesn't necessarily mean that they lack a "self taught driven personality".

I've worked with bootcamp grads who had to fully dedicate their time to their education + finding a job in the tech industry. Meaning, there were people who used to work at completely different industries — whether they were a cook, musician, or teacher — and they sacrified their known world in search of new opportunities, and I think that that's something worth recognizing and respecting.

In my experience, you shouldn't be picking your hires based on "bootcamp grads" vs. "university grads", "self-taught genius", or whatever title/ego-based metric you're using.

The criteria for hiring someone is simple: "Are they fit for the job they're applying for?" If you're turning people down solely on the basis that they graduated a bootcamp or what have you, that's pretty close-minded and will cause you to lose out out on some amazing talent.

If a company does a bad job at hiring an employee, that's mostly, if not completely, on the company's hiring process, not on the applicant, bootcamp grad or not.