[Kalium]

One of the common hazards in entering a field is that the neophyte tends to see everything through the lens of what they grasped first. In a traditional CS curriculum, this is intended to be a formal and mathematical understanding of computers.

When you start by learning a language, that becomes the basis for your understanding of computing. This isn't always a strength. Imagine someone who learned programming via C but now has to learn Lisp - they're going to have a hard time.

I've heard very mixed reviews of hiring from bootcamps. For people who needed the exact skillset the bootcamp taught, it was perfect. For those without that exact alignment, ran into the limits of the person's knowledge pretty fast.

[FLUX-YOU]

>For those without that exact alignment, ran into the limits of the person's knowledge pretty fast.

That seems natural. They only have 3 months of experience. The company is simply going to have to help with that, along with ample googling and reading.

I think the expectations of those doing the hiring may have been out of line, possibly due to bootcamps selling them something they simply can't deliver reliably, possibly due to hiring managers not knowing the field.

[Kalium]

A lot of it was that the bootcamp grads didn't have a good grasp of what they actually knew. They would claim to know a language, but in actuality only know one particular framework in that language.