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Re:California Cracks Down on Hacker Boot Camps by emmett on Monday February 03, 2014 @05:23PM (#7173954)
Empirically, you're wrong. Several of my friends have hired bootcampers to great success. Therefore, it definitely works for at least some of the graduates.
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Re:California Cracks Down on Hacker Boot Camps by pavs on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @01:07AM (#7175801)
Do your friends have prior programming knowledge/experience?
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Re:California Cracks Down on Hacker Boot Camps by emmett on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @08:30PM (#7181389)
...yes. They are mostly startup veterans with 7+ years experience hiring and managing engineering teams. And very good programmers themselves.
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