Nah, I advocated for hiring someone out of a bootcamp who was previously a dancer. She ended up being a great addition to the team, was an excellent communicator, and was a significantly more clever and harder worker than others I’ve worked with who came from elite schools.

I sometimes think this attitude that you can’t teach good programming practices quickly on the job comes from folks who have never tried. We literally have code review practices for this reason.

That’s a great point I hadn’t thought of. There are a lot of things built into the coding process that are designed to support and develop junior engineers. Why shouldn’t bootcamp developers be successful?

As someone who is at management level, for most dev roles, give me someone intelligent with a really good attitude over a dev who is full of himself but highly technical.