Is your company hiring more bootcampers?

Mar 13 9 Comments

To preface: I am not trying to be demeaning, I was wondering if other companies were hiring similarly

At BB, my new grad cohort was mostly (~95%) MS and BS Computer Science majors. Recently my team held a shadowing session to encourage new grads in the new cohort class to join us (Fast forward 6 months later after my cohort ended) the entire cohort we were hosting was all people fresh out of 6 month bootcamp with alot of them having backgrounds in the arts.

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    niPo64

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    niPo64
    I think the idea is if they pass the interviews they are good enough. CS degree or not
    Mar 13 3
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      Gringx

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      Gringx
      A bootcamp that teaches you to be an LC robot might honestly be more effective than an actual college degree nowadays as far as getting your foot in the door.
      Mar 13
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      kNUJ50

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      kNUJ50
      There might be some bootcamps like this but the ones I know are not. They are too busy teaching basic web dev starting with Linux commands. They’re very project based rather than theoretical, so they don’t usually get into recursion, sorting algorithms, trees, hashing algorithms and so on.

      I don’t think you need a cs degree to lc, but at the same time I don’t think bootcamps really set you up for it.
      Mar 13
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    lewishammy

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    lewishammy
    All new hires here at boot campers
    Mar 13 2
  • Some companies are partnering with bootcamps and allowing the top performers to interview and join immediately after graduating, so that may have been the case. Also I feel like bootcampers are more likely to accept lower pay while still having the practical skills to get the job done so there's that chance too...
    Mar 13 0
  • Sounds like you went through short form training for CS majors and you were being shadowed by a long form class for bootcamp grads and non-cs majors. Bloomberg (used to, at least) separates them.
    Mar 13 0