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Not a great article. I can completely understand the rejection of bootcamp applicants. I&#x27;ve personally interviewed people for algorithm &#x2F; math heavy positions (explicitly mentioned in the article) and bootcamp applicants just do not cut it.<p>The genuine knowledge in a field like this cannot be conveyed to anybody over the course of a few months. Teaching someone with a stats or physics background to code is pretty doable on-the-job. Teaching someone years of math isn&#x27;t. And it&#x27;s not really possible in the workplace either.<p>I&#x27;m not saying that a bootcamp education is completely insufficient and there surely are jobs on the market where they make for a nice fit, but in jobs that tend more towards the theory side of things the general aptitude that someone has after years of rigorous education doesn&#x27;t even compare to someone out of a bootcamp.<p>Not to mention that the comparison to race or gender issues in the beginning is in extremely bad taste. The question here is qualification for the job, not discrimination of a protected class.