I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
From the window in my particular Tower of Privilege I don't see a lot of hate against bootcamps.
Where I work, we have people who've come through accelerated learning courses, and we think they're great. I also have friends with a less happy experience, where it turns out the bootcampers were force-fed enough to get them through the starting gates but not enough to be able to fend for themselves in a professional environment without a lot of mentoring.
It also turns out that some people appear to succeed in the camp, but really don't feel comfortable as programmers, or they reach a point where their progression seems to stall. I don't know whether they'd be the sort of people to switch courses if they'd been learning at university over the course of a few years or what.
They can turn out to be good at a few things but have big holes in their knowledge that drain other developers' time.
If a company accepts that bootcampers are essentially only partly-trained, bring them in as juniors with all the enthusiasm they carry with them, and don't give them unrealistic expectations of shooting to the top in six months, it can be great.
I think perhaps people see them as cheap labour for start-ups but they turn out to be expensive because of the amount of time required to train them.
Bootcamps themselves can get seen as trying to push out as many low-quality developers as they can get away with. I don't agree with this, myself. I've seen way more people from camps who are really smart and keen to learn more. Perhaps the hate comes from people worried about losing out on opportunities to people they see as mickey-mouse coders? I don't know. Generally, anyone who hates a particular subset of honest, hard-working developers is a but dumb themselves.
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From the window in my particular Tower of Privilege I don't see a lot of hate against bootcamps.
Where I work, we have people who've come through accelerated learning courses, and we think they're great. I also have friends with a less happy experience, where it turns out the bootcampers were force-fed enough to get them through the starting gates but not enough to be able to fend for themselves in a professional environment without a lot of mentoring.
It also turns out that some people appear to succeed in the camp, but really don't feel comfortable as programmers, or they reach a point where their progression seems to stall. I don't know whether they'd be the sort of people to switch courses if they'd been learning at university over the course of a few years or what.
They can turn out to be good at a few things but have big holes in their knowledge that drain other developers' time.
If a company accepts that bootcampers are essentially only partly-trained, bring them in as juniors with all the enthusiasm they carry with them, and don't give them unrealistic expectations of shooting to the top in six months, it can be great.
I think perhaps people see them as cheap labour for start-ups but they turn out to be expensive because of the amount of time required to train them.
Bootcamps themselves can get seen as trying to push out as many low-quality developers as they can get away with. I don't agree with this, myself. I've seen way more people from camps who are really smart and keen to learn more. Perhaps the hate comes from people worried about losing out on opportunities to people they see as mickey-mouse coders? I don't know. Generally, anyone who hates a particular subset of honest, hard-working developers is a but dumb themselves.