I've been there too. It took me around half a year before I got a development job after doing a Bootcamp. I got rejected once, I was asked absurd coding tests, I spent time working for free in a pretty lousy company. Then eventually I decided to only accept jobs that were worth my time (I was lucky to live with my parents at the time). I wouldn't even go on interviews unless I knew in advance they were serious.
But what I have been doing non-stop in the time between my bootcamp and my first real job, was working on my own project. I was annoyed by the lack of transparency in the job market, so I was determined to build my own job board. Which I did, well sort of.
It never got finished, but most of it was working, I had invested quite a lot of time in it, and put real thought in every part of it. Sure it lacked some, now obvious abstractions, but it worked, was tested and showed my interest in building stuff and solving the problems myself.
It turned out my first job was around the corner, and they invited me for an interview, and it was especially my project that made them interested in me. Not because my project was of any noteworthy quality (I'd be horrified if I'd read the code now). I had an interview, they asked me questions about my project, I could answer them, and eventually I ended up learning a whole lot there.
Now I am helping new trainees coming from a bootcamp at my current job.
Long story short, I think it takes a bit of luck and in my case some effort invested in a side project (imho). But eventually you'll get there.
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I've been there too. It took me around half a year before I got a development job after doing a Bootcamp. I got rejected once, I was asked absurd coding tests, I spent time working for free in a pretty lousy company. Then eventually I decided to only accept jobs that were worth my time (I was lucky to live with my parents at the time). I wouldn't even go on interviews unless I knew in advance they were serious.
But what I have been doing non-stop in the time between my bootcamp and my first real job, was working on my own project. I was annoyed by the lack of transparency in the job market, so I was determined to build my own job board. Which I did, well sort of.
It never got finished, but most of it was working, I had invested quite a lot of time in it, and put real thought in every part of it. Sure it lacked some, now obvious abstractions, but it worked, was tested and showed my interest in building stuff and solving the problems myself.
It turned out my first job was around the corner, and they invited me for an interview, and it was especially my project that made them interested in me. Not because my project was of any noteworthy quality (I'd be horrified if I'd read the code now). I had an interview, they asked me questions about my project, I could answer them, and eventually I ended up learning a whole lot there.
Now I am helping new trainees coming from a bootcamp at my current job.
Long story short, I think it takes a bit of luck and in my case some effort invested in a side project (imho). But eventually you'll get there.