The dark side of coding bootcamps

This is based on my personal experience. I went to a coding school at San Jose which teaches four different stacks. Before joining the school, I thought it will help me to find a job if I know four full stacks instead of one. Boy was I wrong. That backfired me severely. I came out Jack of four stacks master of none.

Here I am pointing few drawbacks of that school.

  1. The important point is that the coding school has absolutely no support for candidates on how to find a job in current market. Some schools in bay area have a tie up with local companies/startups. At least few top graduates get hired as soon as they finish. From my cohort, not a single person was able to get an offer even after 3-4 weeks of graduation.

  2. All teachers teaching at school are bootcamp graduates. So they only teach what they have learned there. So you really can't learn how software is developed according to industry standard.

  3. I follow lots of graduates from that school on LinkedIn and I believe around 50% of the graduate are still on the market.

The market is now flooded with bootcamp graduates. And the companies in bay area are looking for those unicorns (A candidate with 5 years of industry experiences developing and maintaining highly scalable apps and well versed with several skills starting from front end to back end).

I have almost talked to 50 companies over phone in Bay Area and invariably each of them came out saying that we do not hire juniors. And few of them have happily mentioned that they do not have bandwidth to take a junior developer and train him/her.

If anybody can give some great suggestions how to find those companies who are willing to take junior developers it will be of great help.

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