I’ve hired people who did a bootcamp or whatever, and I tend to ask what else they’ve done. The good candidates will have an interesting side project and learned a ton outside of the program, and the poor candidates will try to pass classwork off as “personal projects.”

We’ve hired bootcamp people who are way better than people with masters degrees. And I don’t just mean faster, I mean they’re actually better at the conceptual stuff. Some people just learn better by doing than reading, so they can catch up.

That said, our best “bootcamp engineer” is doing a degree right now while working full time (dude is a beast) to fill in the gaps.