[muzani]

I think there was an experimental phase where people hired anyone regardless of qualifications, as long as they passed the interviews. Perhaps this was done in the spirit of TDD.

So in the same spirit, bootcamps would optimize just to pass those interviews. Bootcamp people certainly got some awesome jobs, then everyone realized they weren't cut out for the job.

At college, I was given the code for an operating system and asked to implement multithreading and a file system into it. There was little advice, you just had to learn to hack large codebases to pass. This kind of thing doesn't make it into interviews and thus, doesn't make it into bootcamps, but it's a vital work skill.

[apohn]

There's no way a Bootcamp grad with no degree and no experience got an H1-B visa. Companies have no flexibility with the legal requirements for visa. Even if a company said they would hire every single person from a bootcamp, they can't get around the legal visa requirements.

The recruiters did was sales people do - spoke confidently about something with zero knowledge of the situation. Or they lied. Most people have zero knowledge of the visa process, so most likely they just BSed the OP.