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Coding/developer bootcamps

I am in that same exact position. making ok money right now, looking for another job after less then 2 years post boot camp, most of what I'm seeing is 100k at the bottom up to around 160k in the bay area. I'll probably end up with a bit less though, because I'm trying to find something outside of the bay area now.

That's pretty solid for 2-3yrs of work experience. Is that base salary, or total compensation?
 
Cool, does her background with linguistics play a role in her work, i.e. NLP?

Unfortunately not; she worked on semantics which I think doesn't really relate to NLP much, and her department had a pretty dysfunctional/nonexistent relationship with the CS department.
 
That's pretty solid for 2-3yrs of work experience. Is that base salary, or total compensation?
most I'm looking at, it's base.

I'm actually somewhat of a slacker, at least in comparison to some of the other folks from that cohort. One guy is doing devops and is around 140 k or so. another at facebook making 130 ish, another slumming it a bit like me at a small shop in alameda at only 85. Of course, there's one guy who is bouncing from unpaid gigs and internships down in LA, but overall results are pretty good on average, though the advertised '100k starting within a month or two' is usually not realistic. It takes time and experience.
 
Kind of bat shit crazy that someone with only 2 years of experience and just a bootcamp experience, which basically teaches how to string bunch of APIs together, gets 140k salary.
 
Kind of bat shit crazy that someone with only 2 years of experience and just a bootcamp experience, which basically teaches how to string bunch of APIs together, gets 140k salary.

My boss was asking what an API was the other day as we drove by a Google building that had “I <3 APIs” on the window.

Told him it was like MODBUS tables except for phone applications. :p
 
My boss was asking what an API was the other day as we drove by a Google building that had “I <3 APIs” on the window.

Told him it was like MODBUS tables except for phone applications. :p

#OG
 
Yup.

And while things like distributed protection networks utilizing GPS synchronized broad spectrum microwave communication exist, Puget Sound Energy still insists on hardwired I/O from their system to the substation relays. :facepalm
 
hackbright is exceptional from my experience. I haven't met a bad dev from hackbright, whereas I've met bad devs from each of the other programs.

Are the programs so rigorous that you can't hold down a full time job while attending these coding camps?

Makes sense to find a good program with a solid reputation before jumping in.
 
Yup.

And while things like distributed protection networks utilizing GPS synchronized broad spectrum microwave communication exist, Puget Sound Energy still insists on hardwired I/O from their system to the substation relays. :facepalm

Same thing with Hawaii Electic. We has some crazy breakout boards in dog pens where our substations met where we could have just thrown a fiber over the fence and gone RTAC to RTAC with the signals.
 
Are the programs so rigorous that you can't hold down a full time job while attending these coding camps?

Makes sense to find a good program with a solid reputation before jumping in.

Yeah you're required to be there and it's not like regular school where everyone is forced to move at the same pace. If you get left behind, it's your job to dig yourself out, the curriculum moves on.
 
I spent a month in North Carolina doing my MCSD.

I had 2 weeks of day classes and 2 weeks of night classes.

Doing my studying and tests when not in the classes.
 
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