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When you graduated how familiar were you with Twitter Bootstrap, X popular framework (Rails / Laravel / Django), any experience using Vue or React?

My brother graduated 4 years ago (he's a stock boy now) with a degree in Digital Design and Development (Flash, PHP, JS, CSS, Adobe CS), he leans more frontend/graphics but never once was taught anything about CSS frameworks or bootstrap. I'm self-taught laravel dev since 2013, I've used vue, jquery, bootstrap, vuetify, bulma, tailwinds, on frontend even though backend is my strong suit.

I think the point I'm getting at is bootcamps teach exactly what companies need in terms of frameworks and 'hot ticket' skills. You could be a kick ass java developer after you graduate college but if you've never used Spring or Clojure or some other Java framework you're just useless to most companies.

Bootcamps also do quite a bit of bridge building with companies/recruiters to keep their job placements high, where most colleges wipe their hands after you get your diploma and it's on your own good graces that you find your first gig... 2-3 years in it gets way easier though.