[flappyeagle]

Trajectory matters far more than starting position.

I’ve personally hired people into their first dev jobs out of bootcamp, self-study, and other non-traditional backgrounds.

You can reliably pick winners by testing for mental acuity and observing how much they learn in a short period of time.

An internship is just a glorified interview process. They found a good future employee

[lapcat]

> An internship is just a glorified interview process. They found a good future employee

Why are you assuming that? The OP said nothing about the intern become an employee, much less a good employee. You'd think that would be mentioned if it were the case.

[flappyeagle]

It is the definition of an internship. They’ve de-risked this hire. Now they can do things like offer a more competitive offer or otherwise close the candidate with high confidence

[lapcat]

> It is the definition of an internship.

No, it's not.