Tech's push to teach coding isn't about kids' success – it's about cutting wages

I can't give a specific answer to any company because the work you may do is incredibly varied. Companies are often looking for people that are proficient with specific technologies, like React, Docker, Mongo etc. A CS degree gives you the tools to learn these technologies, but a lot of time is spent on theoretical concepts you won't often encounter because 70% of the field is making CRUD apps. Boot camps have the exact opposite problem, where they teach the specific tools, but none of the underlying knowledge that's needed to make the switch to something else or how to fix lower level problems you may run into.

Most companies aren't willing to let juniors fiddle around and be a complete potato for the first few months while trying to learn both the companies specific codebase, as well as how the actual tech/framework/language works. Senior level engineers have the experience to come into new situations and often hit the ground running in a way that juniors simply can't because they've already done it over and over again

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