Coding Bootcamps Hiring

Is anyone actually hiring people solely on them having completed a coding bootcamp?

I hired a bootcamp grad, it was a slow moving disaster. But it was also validating that cs degrees are worth a lot

I've hired from bootcamps multiple times, it's a great source of junior developers. It is however a show of the absolute minimum amount of skill a person could possibly have before you take them on as a developer.If this person says that they've been coding for years, then that puts them at a way higher level than a recent bootcamp grad.Instead of doing a bootcamp, spend a week or two building simple apps in whatever category you want to work in. If you want to be a web dev,

I've only worked with one bootcamp grad, but I've done a fair bit of hiring over the past 15 years, including a number of junior folks.My main concern with bootcamp grads is that it is not much of a positive signal. My (admittedly biased and unscientific) sense is that you really have to be hopeless to flunk out. The training period is so short that the assignments are necessarily small and limited in scope, so they don't test any kind of tenacity or the problem solving and l

As someone who both interviewed bootcampers, and also partnered with a local bootcamp (IronYard) this is pretty much exactly my experience. The bootcamps can take someone who had an interest in programming before hand, and give them a fast leg up to get into programming professionally, and that's great. But the vast majority of people in these programs are just there because they heard you can make a lot of money as a programmer and have no real interest, or talent with programming, and it

The implication being bootcamp grads can't into software engineering?

Only if your training was a "coding bootcamp".

Everyone still has to jump through the Leetcode/whiteboard/design hoops to get in the door. My impression from working with bootcamp grads is that they are well-prepared for this trial, better than CS grads. The bootcamps don't teach them any theory that will "never" be used on the job.

Bootcamp dev here:The camp I went to was very small and went under after my class graduated. There were just 4 of us in the class. 2 of us now are devs. The other guy who became a dev had a good amount of IT experience coming in, but needed more hands on work with development. The other students just weren't picking up the stuff fast enough and quickly fell behind and didn't recover. I have met a decent amount of people from other camps that had similar experiences, sometimes coding

If you look at the graduates of the top bootcamps, these are folks who studied music theory at Harvard, physics at Yale, math at Stanford, EE at UMich, mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, etc. These are very smart folks who have proven themselves in their career and education to dive into new challenges. They have often already taken a few online courses. The acceptance rate is very low (5% or less) and the job placement rates are very high (over 90%). These aren't diploma mills and the