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Should You Hire a Bootcamp Graduate?

4 pointsby beekumsover 8 years ago

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seaborn63over 8 years ago
I am a bootcamp graduate, and I was lucky enough to be hired as a junior developer. I did have a lot of companies tell me that flat out that they didn&#x27;t hire bootcamp grads. I also got interviews with a lot of companies that listed job requirements as &quot;CS Degree with 3.5 GPA&quot;. I did bomb some interviews, but overall, everyone I talked to was very encouraging. I applied at a very small company (12 people), and the CEO actually sent me an email telling me to not give up and to keep going. He himself did not have a degree and told me it would be rough, but that I could do it.<p>The company that finally hired me has been amazing. They understand my limited knowledge base, but that has not deterred them from assigning me tasks I had never done before. Overall, it was a rough time from first day of bootcamp to getting hired, but in the end it&#x27;s totally been worth it.