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As a hiring manager, I can say that the quality of candidates from any sort of degree program versus any sort of bootcamp is really chalk and cheese. It's not a question of only hiring people with elite resumes it's the difference between someone who has had to think deeply about a subject and learn how to solve hard problems versus someone who has had some rote knowledge about a specific tech stack drilled into them by repetition and the minute they get outside their (narrow) zone they really struggle.

That's not to say I never hire bootcamp candidates, it is that going to a bootcamp is not really a positive in my assessment.



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