[godot]

My previous company hired a lot from bootcamps (specifically Hack Reactor). For a dev team of < 15 people, we had at least a handful of them from bootcamps. I was one of the senior engineers and interviewers on the team so I was part of the hiring decision, so I have some insights on why. Although I didn't call that shot (of deciding to hire from bootcamps), I can see the reasoning behind it.

Like many startups, it was on a node/react stack. And like many startups, we were not tackling particularly hard algorithm problems. A lot of the problems we face were just about building out lots and lots of features on the consumer-facing site and managing a rather large and unwieldy codebase. The skills we needed were not FAANG style algorithm-solving and having computer science degrees. We needed people who really knew node and especially react, and just build out those features that product management and the business wanted efficiently.

Incidentally, outside of the core of 4~5 senior engineers on the team (who've been there pretty much since the beginning), these bootcamp recruits had the highest retention in that engineering team, among many others who had come and go. Your regular CS-educated software engineer tends to get a bit bored doing that kind of work for a couple of years. I left as well, but for mostly other reasons (though that was a small part of it).

To answer more directly to your question of interest though -- it's probably quite hard to pinpoint bootcamp candidates with specific backgrounds you're looking for, though. For example, the backgrounds of the bootcamp hires I mentioned varied widely, from things like chemical engineering to business majors and entrepreneurs of small local businesses who wanted to become a software engineer.