Ask HN: People who did coding boot camps, what did you think?

Re:Ask HN: People who did coding boot camps, what did you th... by aagrad on Sunday January 08, 2017 @05:13AM (#13349123)

I went to App Academy a few years back. I ended up taking a software development job at just about the salary they advertised, spent over a year there, and then moved on to one of Amazon/Facebook/Google/Microsoft.

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Re:Ask HN: People who did coding boot camps, what did you th... by gsuppy on Sunday January 08, 2017 @10:02PM (#13353677)

Hey aagrad, would be curious as to how you were able to transition over so quickly. And how's the interview process like for a senior level engineer?

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Re:Ask HN: People who did coding boot camps, what did you th... by aagrad on Monday January 09, 2017 @11:00PM (#13362453)

I don't think I did anything special. At some point a recruiter from one of those companies messaged me on LinkedIn, then I spent a couple of weeks preparing with Cracking the Coding Interview. I'm not a senior engineer - I interviewed for a mid level role but got a junior level offer. Probably didn't do well enough on the systems design questions.

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