Looking at them under the light of self-selection effect, bootcamps are an excellent source of engineers. Going to college signals your parents have money, and about yourself, maybe risk-aversion / conventionality. Bootcamps signal hustling, risk-tolerance, autonomy.
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Replying to @Altimor
That stopped being true a long time ago. Some of my least-prepared and slowest learning coworkers came from bootcamps. Your statement better fits self-taught people that built a portfolio to break in I think — but I'm biased.
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Replying to @bitemyapp @Altimor
That never stopped being true, but 20x as many people started going to bootcamps. Just good ol dilution.
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Replying to @AustenAllred @Altimor
Citing 2013, 2014 vintage examples. Good ol' broken ass education implemented by people that don't know how to educate.
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I’ve interviewed a couple dozen bootcamp grads that couldn’t code fizzbuzz after 12 weeks and $15k. Not an exaggeration. But that doesn’t mean either bootcamps or bootcamp grads are necessarily bad, just varied.
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