Would You Hire a Bootcamp Grad?

2 points by tetonraven 10 years ago | 7 comments

Would you hire somebody who's gone through a 10 week MEAN bootcamp as a junior developer, assuming they also had a running site they'd built, with source on GitHub?

gonepostal 10 years ago |

I view it just like many other educational certificates. It is a positive that you have earned it. What's most important is what have you done with it and what can you do with it.

Bootcamps don't change people, they just provide tools for their students to continue learning.

tetonraven 10 years ago |

Maybe some detail would help. I have interviewed and hired people, been a dev team lead and manager. I would consider a such a candidate enough to at least get them on the phone and see where it goes. Just wondering if I'm alone here (especially because I have a personal bias in this case).

pieperz 10 years ago |

It depends on the camp and who the somebody is. All boot camps are not created equal. I went to a boot camp that was not in the top tier and while I dont necessarily regret going lets just say it was not the reason I was able to get hired.

tetonraven 10 years ago | |

Is there any common resource that people use for judging reputation of these programs? For what it's worth, the context for my question is for one in Boulder called RefactorU. I've been a web developer for (well, a while) but my wife wants to get into the field and this program looks pretty good to me.

pieperz 10 years ago | |

I would also add that I am not sure about the MEAN stack camps I have seen few if any job descriptions that actually used that stack more than likely they just want you to know JS.

analognoise 10 years ago |

No.

tetonraven 10 years ago | |

Any detail on why not? A categorical or conditional no?