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by 908B64B197 2157 days ago
I really can't recommend bootcamp; They almost always teach "tricks" rather than systematic thinking and consider CS fundamentals to be in the way of practical "applied" learning.

It's pretty depressing once you get a few resumes that all have the same portfolio, because the whole bootcamp was about building their portfolio website.
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jmchuster 2157 days ago
New grads also all have the exact same resume as well. I'd go through OCR and interview 16 carbon-copy resumes every day.

I'm not convinced that bootcamp grads are particularly worse at CS fundamentals than many college grads. If you care, you'll put in the time to learn using the infinite amount of free classes and resources out there. If you don't, being forced to take the minimum number of core classes and get passing grades in them doesn't change much about how you think and approach problems.

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908B64B197 2156 days ago
> If you care, you'll put in the time to learn using the infinite amount of free classes and resources out there

Exactly. But a lot of bootcamps out there are advertised more as a get-rich-quick scheme than learning a career. That seems to attract the wrong types of candidates.

But I agree, passing grades from mediocre schools is absolutely not a good filter.

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