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> A study by Triplebyte has found that bootcamp grads are weaker in these areas than computer science grads.

Really?! Who'da thunk?

> At Hack Reactor, we’re trained to mask our inexperience. In our personal narratives, we purposely omit our bootcamp education.

Hm...

> Why? Otherwise, companies automatically categorize us into junior developer roles or tag us as “not enough experience.”

And you think that after a few weeks of bootcamp "education" you're anything but?

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Given the people I've interviewed who had extensive "fundamental" "CS" "education", vs. the people I've worked with who've done bootcamps, I'll take the bootcamp any day of the week and tell the CS folks to get a refund from the university, because the CS folks straight up can't code on average.

I guess that would depend on if you are looking for a programmer or an engineer.

"Engineer" -- and I say this knowing full well it's the title assigned to me by my company -- doesn't entail any meaningful difference I've ever seen. Other than some architecture astronaut types I've worked with who felt that writing code was too dirty a task for them.

I mean, call it what you will, but a lot of these people are getting offers, man. Good ones. Which is more than I can say for myself with my comp sci degree and two years experience. Although my location is likely to blame for that.

More than I can say for my BS CS plus 17 years.

As I have had 7 different jobs for 12 different employers (due to mergers/acquisitions, by the most generous count), and have needed to run the entire interview gauntlet all 7 times, my primary career goal is no longer to earn more money. It is to never have to do another effing software-industry interview, ever again.

But damn. For $120k/year, in the region where I now live, I might just put Expo2 to whiteboard one more time.

I get tired of justifying my own existence to people who are only pretending to care that I am not actually a human-form automaton to crank out code. In short, the software-industry interview has always been stupid, but it has also become increasingly arrogant and rude. Is it really worth it to put up with the crap-on-you parade for a few more measly dollars in the paycheck?

>"my primary career goal is no longer to earn more money. It is to never have to do another effing software-industry interview, ever again.:

I feel exactly the same way, even though the existence of those interviews is probably the main reason I was able to get into kinds of companies I did.

to be fair many of them go to berkeley...