As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check
As someone who interviewed dozens of bootcampers I can give some insight.<p>1) Most of the bootcamps teach the basic of front-end, and a lot of them, teach by doing without explaining a lot of basic concepts. They are basically money grabbers and throw these people out of the door as fast as possible to get their money back.<p>2) A lot of the students are in for the money, not for the love of the job. Sorry, but it&#x27;s true. I don&#x27;t mean to include everyone, but out of 30 students, only 2 kept working in my previous company, they weren&#x27;t good developers, but they loved the job and kept learning and improving themselves. Nothing wrong with pursuing a good paycheck, but in developers world in order to keep being relevant in the next 2&#x2F;3 years you need to keep sharping your skills.<p>3) The best developers I worked with are the self-taught guys&#x2F;girls who learn on their own before they even hit the college. 
The most boring developers I work with, the the ones who only learn to code while in college and never developed any interested to learn before that. 
But the most horrible devs I work with came from boot camps. Not their fault, it&#x27;s just how bad these bootcamps are.