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Ask HN: What do companies think of programming bootcamps?

1 pointsby Tbeikoalmost 10 years ago
Hi everyone,<p>I&#x27;m currently taking an online Ruby on Rails bootcamp with www.gotealeaf.com and I&#x27;m a bit over 50% over the bootcamp.<p>I&#x27;m at the point where I feel comfortable building a small rails app and slowly adding more around the bare bones of it to make it somewhat secure and scalable.<p>I chose tealeaf because they seemed to have the more in-depth curriculum of all but I&#x27;m still wondering whether this would actually get me a job somewhere?<p>At the moment I&#x27;m working on my own project (and coding it myself) and my goal with the bootcamp wasn&#x27;t full-time employment, but it feels as though it&#x27;s a promise that many of them make.<p>Also, after some searching, &quot;junior&quot; positions aren&#x27;t very frequent, and since that&#x27;s usually what they say you&#x27;ll be qualified for, is there an over-supply of &quot;bootcamp devs&quot; for startup to choose from?<p>Thanks!<p>To give you an idea of what we build, this is my github so far: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Tbeiko &quot;blackjack&quot;, &quot;post-it&quot; and &quot;myflix&quot; (in progress) are our assigned projects, in order of completion.

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ksmithbayloralmost 10 years ago
At my company in the Atlanta area, I am on a team of 20 people, 12 of which are developers. Since I started a little over a year ago, my team alone has hired 2 developers fresh out of a Rails bootcamp. The hiring managers are actively seeking &quot;junior&quot; devs (bootcamp or not) in order to invest in their skills and train them in our company culture.<p>For some background, the company is fairly large (15,000 or so total employees), but has a strong focus on technology and there are approximately 25 &quot;capability teams&quot; including mine that function largely independently and autonomously.