How are bootcamp graduates seen in your interview process? Does your team automatically reject non-CS grads? Is there a harder interview process for bootcamp grads? Does your company use HackerRank or some kind of code test to let anyone apply? I’m also curious how bootcamp camp grads are treated as part of the team?
No policy. I interview them occasionally. Never seen one actually get an offer.
That's my experience, as well.
A woman in my team was hired from bootcamp (she worked at a startup before so she had some work experience after her bootcamp)
We’ve hired from boot camps with success. The key is to look for hunger. Lots of hungry but cash/time strapped folk go through boot camps vs. CS degree and do just fine based on brute force learning. I’ll take a hungry bootcamper over an entitled CS grad any day.
You are missing the point. Hunger can get things done but cant add long term value.
Hunger gets things done perpetually. Aka long term.
Interviewed some. Most of them will struggle at entry level.
Interviewed some of them and it seemed that most of them would have been great people to work with, but I would have to do all of their work though!! They had huge knowledge gaps whenever I dug a little deep into any particular question.
Most of then can’t pass the interview. Those who do, are usually better than CS grads as they have higher self motivation to learn and more passion for the field than average CS grad that passes the interview
Same interview process but they fail the interview. Bootcamp often lacks CS fundamentals.
I’d hire a bootcamper for a contract position. I’ve worked at two large companies and they would be both ok at hiring as contract for front end work to get a task done and in that process if they shine (not just doing what they’re told but seeing gaps or adding value to the team) they’d be considered full time. Shining would involve deepening their knowledge around the fundamentals.
I get all of my candidates from boot camp.
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What do you expect after doing it?