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Contrary to the above anecdotes, I did a coding bootcamp and landed a job with Amazon as a software engineer for AWS starting Monday (undergrad in chemical engineering, 5 years out of school).
Facebook isn't paying that for people coming our of "coding boot camp" go get a CS degree if you want the Facebook money. Otherwise have fun building apps and websites
Facebook paying 160k base + 50k signing bonus and 100k+ equity per year, two years out of college. Why are we chasing M in 4-6 years when we can be doing this?
This thread took a positive turn! Glad to get some actual programmers without the talking heads. I’ve got friend who went through data science boot camps at Springboard who now works at LinkedIn. Hardest part is getting started and a knowledge slump in the middle keep grinding and go get em champ!
They hire the best of the best. Not sure they are recruiting from the boot camp scene.
If you can learn algos and data structures, and do an impressive side project, you could maybe get an interview. Bootcamps hardly guarantee an interview, which you seen to think they do.
I personally enrolled in Hack Reactor since I’m based out of Austin. But another one I was considering is App Academy if you’re interested in full stack development using Ruby on Rails, jquery, react and JS. Have a friend that went through it and currently works as a product engineer at Facebook.
^ anecdotal experience says otherwise. No one cares what degree you have for software. They just need to know you can code, e.g. Pass the technical interview.
Bootcamp won’t get you an interview or past even the most basic recruiting filters even if you’re a coding savant. But it could give you the basic skills to build on. Consider using the bootcamp skills to do something interesting in open source.
And get your cs degree from Stanford or cal or another high quality institution if you want that kind of scratch,
^A1- you rock!.” What program if you don’t mind?
OP- coding is one of the most valuable skills you will ever learn- if you understand how to create things with it. You have a skillset almost no coder has, these tech companies are dying for creative problem solvers and that is you. Just stop problem solving in PowerPoint for heavens sake.
Tbh I don’t know any, pwc2. I faced the same dilemma you’re facing and was sick of consulting so I took a 3 month LOA to do the bootcamp.
I took a computer science degree and did an internship writing code (it was called "programming" at the time). Extremely mind-numbing work and I couldn't imagine doing that for months on end, never mind the rest of my career. I'm surprised you'd want to as a consultant. Developers are essentially supporting/technical roles who produce what they're assigned to produce, while management consultants inform the decision-makers on the big picture.
If you enjoy it, do it! I can't stand coding myself. So much debugging
Go for it. If you have awesome business experience and you can program? 😙👌 then you are definitely a very special candidate. What programs are you looking at?
K1, java and python. Also, had to skill up on my knowledge on how to integrate with the AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, etc)
^nice- what boot camps would you recommend for the uninitiated?
Following. Also, I am interesting in enrolling into a bootcamp that offers weekend classes. I am based out of NYC and there are many such bootcamps, but hardly do I see any offering those. With a traveling job like ours, it's difficult to enroll into weekday classes.
A1 - do you know of any such bootcamps?