Has anyone ever gotten hired straight from a coding bootcamp without prior experience? I am curious if companies actually take those grads seriously.

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I did, but this was about six years ago. I’ve heard things have changed now. I think if you do a Boot Camp and then prioritize projects and having a solid portfolio, that will definitely help.

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This used to work like a charm, but hardly works at all anymore. The bootcamps got way too popular and I think the need for coders has also changed. So yeah, I wouldn't bank on these programs being a job guarantee anymore.

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Pre-Covid, pre TikTok influencers selling the “$200k straight out of bootcamp” dream. This hasn’t been the case since 2022 at least

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Yeah I went to Lambda 2019-20, and then got hired but only because I sold myself short. It took 4 months after I graduated. I took a pizza delivery driver job in the between to fill in the income while my wife worked as well and we had a 6 year old and a new born at the time so it wasn’t an easy time it was hard, being a delivery driver was not hard so it allowed me to not be drained to continue working on self projects for my portfolio which I think ultimately helped as well.

Lambda was big on promoting high salaries so I was gunning for 80k-100k jobs at first at first but I got no calls and the competition was insane even then, it wasn’t until I started to put that I was looking for 50-60k that I started to get calls. I got hired at 60k and after a year they made me a senior and bumped me to 100k, since I helped launch one of their main applications to production. In retrospect I would have rather gone to community college if I could, but given my situation that was not possible at the time, so we opted for a short 9 month boot camp program.

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I did almost 3 years ago. I had a lot of previous work experience in other areas, which I’m sure helped me to secure my role.

I got offers from small startups so I imagine larger companies will overlook bootcamp grad unless they have very impressive projects interview extremely well

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Companies used to sponsor the bootcamps and part of the deal was a job at the end. I guess from your post that isn't done anymore ☹️

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