Remote work means anyone can take your job

Re:Remote work means anyone can take your job by cvlasdkv on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:21PM (#23339091)

There are plenty of bootcamp grads across the companies I've worked and they all make 100k+ (and some are established senior engineers).

Like you are implying: status signaling from degree mills is pretty useless compared to actual competency.

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Re:Remote work means anyone can take your job by ashtonkem on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:40PM (#23339375)

My subjective experience is that boot camp grads are not as successful in the interview and job acquisition process.

Whether or not that’s due to differences in education or purely signaling behavior is something I have yet to fully make up my mind about.

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Re:Remote work means anyone can take your job by maemilius on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:22PM (#23342833)

I've had a similar experience at my job and I think it's actually both things.

On one side you have people that managed to claw their way through the boot camp but didn't actually pick up any of the skills; they memorized enough to get through instead of actually learning stuff. On the other side, you have people that did learn but aren't confident in their skills and so flub the interview when their confidence gives out.

I've watched the latter happen on more than one occasion and I really wish I knew how to handle it as an interviewer.

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