Looking back over this hours later I want to add the following:
the anecdote I offered above was not an effort to paint code camp participants as untrustworthy or incompetent. My point is that this individual was lacking in skills and knowledge beyond a Jr level engineer and plagiarized at least part of his codecamp work.
The only thing he needed codecamp for was the "education" on his resume and a shortcut through the interview process. He was made lead engineer, potentially just to boost his resume, but regardless he was involved in "fullstack" development which was leading to some really really nasty issues. He had already worked there for some time once I joined the team, so I have no idea how limited his skills or knowledge were when he joined. What I did see was that he took a codecamp shortcut. This is harder to do with college CS courses and totally pointless if you're doing it for the fun of learning and creating things in the first place (which is the motivation for my and many other people's self-education).
I've worked with self, college and bootcamp educated people. To reiterate I PERSONALLY have not encountered someone from bootcamp who was beyond Jr level. I'm sure there are people out there who are very talented and have used bootcamp education to their benefit, but I see it as an easy system to abuse and I'm skeptical over the actual educational benefits offered by these schools.
I would also like to add that I have worked for a number of companies who refuse to even look at a resume from people with codecamp education (hiring people who are self-educated over codecamp educated even). I think this is a heavy handed approach and disagree with it.
Regardless of the source of education, loading up your company with people who are only Jr to Mid level is a recipe for disaster.
the anecdote I offered above was not an effort to paint code camp participants as untrustworthy or incompetent. My point is that this individual was lacking in skills and knowledge beyond a Jr level engineer and plagiarized at least part of his codecamp work.
The only thing he needed codecamp for was the "education" on his resume and a shortcut through the interview process. He was made lead engineer, potentially just to boost his resume, but regardless he was involved in "fullstack" development which was leading to some really really nasty issues. He had already worked there for some time once I joined the team, so I have no idea how limited his skills or knowledge were when he joined. What I did see was that he took a codecamp shortcut. This is harder to do with college CS courses and totally pointless if you're doing it for the fun of learning and creating things in the first place (which is the motivation for my and many other people's self-education).
I've worked with self, college and bootcamp educated people. To reiterate I PERSONALLY have not encountered someone from bootcamp who was beyond Jr level. I'm sure there are people out there who are very talented and have used bootcamp education to their benefit, but I see it as an easy system to abuse and I'm skeptical over the actual educational benefits offered by these schools.
I would also like to add that I have worked for a number of companies who refuse to even look at a resume from people with codecamp education (hiring people who are self-educated over codecamp educated even). I think this is a heavy handed approach and disagree with it.
Regardless of the source of education, loading up your company with people who are only Jr to Mid level is a recipe for disaster.