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by 908B64B197 2065 days ago
Honestly, what I look for when hiring is:

previous experience/internships at good companies that I know have solid engineering and/or CS/Engineering degree from a school I trust.

In my mind, bootcamps, certs and micro-degrees often signal someone was unable to enter the field due to a lack of qualifications. Most of them are pretty much rote memorization of commercial products, so fairly low value, or 'one trick ponies' where they know how to create a web app with one and only one tech stack (by copy-pasting templates!).

Really, I expect anyone with a good degree or previous experience to just be able to read git and GitHub's manuals and get it.