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Discussion on: I Finished a Coding Bootcamp: What Was It Like?

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Ryan Latta

Ooh, congrats on completing the bootcamp!

Reading the comments I'd like to throw a few little tidbits in for the crowd.

Coming out of a bootcamp you've got the chops to do the job.

This, sadly, is quite different from being able to GET a job.

As you go into the process, remember that the whole interview process you'll experience is nothing like the job itself. You will quite literally spend days or weeks discussing what word goes in a button or what to name a table. In an interview you'll build Twitter in < 20 minutes.

If you find that getting a job after your bootcamp is not going smoothly, check out some of my articles on the subject, or my book, or class, or whatever. It can be real rough experience getting a job, even if there are plenty out there. Don't beat yourself up, be kind to yourself, and remember it has nothing to do with your ability to do the job.

I hate seeing good developers struggle to get jobs they're more than qualified to have. Sadly, that's how our industry is right now.

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Adriana DiPietro

Great input Ryan! Thank you for sharing -- you are very right!!!