This story serves as an interesting counterpoint to Haseeb Qureshi&#x27;s interview experience (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11552780" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11552780</a>). I think some discussion about how he and Sahat&#x27;s experiences contrast would be useful.<p>I almost want to joke that it&#x27;s Sahat should have done a bootcamp, since that seems to have been Haseeb&#x27;s advantage; he learned everything about CS very recently and freshly, in an environment where he would be absorbing material that&#x27;s tech interview fodder. Coupled with Haseeb&#x27;s intelligence and quickness in absorbing said material, he must have impressed his interviewers. Whereas, an experienced developer like Sahat is worse off- ironically, by not being new to the field, he lacked the advantage of seeing like a fast learner. It&#x27;s almost like ageism but specific to how long one has been programming.<p>And on the subject of hacker bootcamps- I&#x27;ve heard a lot of them not only teach programming, but how to optimize one&#x27;s interviewing skills. If bootcamp graduates are doing well because of that, does that mean there should be bootcamps for experienced devs who want to switch jobs, just so they can ace interview questions? And is that really what this industry has come to? Memorizing algorithms and strategies for passing data structure logic puzzles in cram schools just to get a job?