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Re:They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia by duxup on Sunday May 12, 2019 @04:02PM (#19894181)
What is really disheartening is for those of us who went to camps.... we're painted with the same brush after people have experiences with our bad classmates.

About half my coding camp class was unemployable by my estimation. At one interview I'm fairly sure they had interviewed a classmate or two before me and the questions they asked were painfully simple to start.... if they felt they had to ask that, I can't imagine they'd ever want to hire someone at that level. Obviously I showed them otherwise and the interview went well, but I felt like their perception was so poor to start, there was no chance.

At least I'm working now so it's not just "coding camp" on my resume as far as coding goes (I had another technical career previous to this one). I"m hesitant to mention the coding camp when I meet other people who are in the same industry. I really enjoyed my coding camp experience (going back to school was a surprisingly wonderful experience as I was a poor student earlier in life) and yet I'm inclined to say "self taught" and that isn't exactly true although much of what I know now would fall into that category.

Re:They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia by throwawayjava on Sunday May 12, 2019 @06:27PM (#19894990)
> I had another technical career previous to this one

This seems to be the huge differentiator.

I've had really good experiences with boot camp grads who had a previous technical career or came from a STEM phd. Camps are great for getting already well-educated people up to speed on how to hack together a website, which is an enormous value add to an existing skill set.

Re:They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia by duxup on Sunday May 12, 2019 @09:10PM (#19895713)
Absolutely, familiarity with troubleshooting, how layers of technology interact, dealing with new tech regularly, working with technical teams is a big leg up.