They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia
[Warning Exremely Controversial Post Ahead]<p>I am currently working for a big corporate in the UK, who have been showing off their &quot;pioneering&quot; and &quot;visionary&quot; strategy to focus recruitment from code boot-camps.<p>All I can say is that as a senior developer, it has made my life misery. I&#x27;ve gone from writing code and producing features, to a full-time mentor and babysitter. 
Half of the boot-camp graduates I believe have become coders for the wrong reasons like:<p>* developers have an easy life, getting into work whenever they choose<p>* they get to wear t-shirts and baggy jeans<p>* they get all the latest toys to play around with and shiny MacBooks<p>* I hated my last job, looking at developers on TV in these Silicon valley places looks like the dream life<p>* I am a single mother who was given the course for free<p>The others, have aptitude but are so inexperienced from their 3 month session that it will take them atleast two years before they can be fully independant engineers.<p>These codecamps are licenses to print money it seems, they charge the students a hefty fee for the course and companies then pay a recruitment fee at the end.<p>Needless to say, I will be leaving my company very soon to go to a place where there is a coding test and filtering to prevent most of these bootcampers from getting in.<p>Yes its snobby, but I didn&#x27;t study and spend my student loan on my passion just so I can train up a bunch of people looking for the &quot;easy life&quot;.