Elite Colleges "Blind-sided" by Perceptions of Elitism

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Originally Posted by fash [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No way I'd hire some 9 month hacker boot camp grad, unless that grad somehow managed to demonstrate he effectively understood what you'd otherwise have learned from a reputable computer science college. You wouldn't want to end up with a dev team composed of dilettantes and web devs tasked to solve challenging software engineering problems. There's a reason good CS grads get 100k+ out of college in entry level positions.

Well, I'm just speaking from my experience: I've known many CS grads and actually hired two Hack Reactor grads. I wouldn't say every hacker boot camp grad is good, or even every Hack Reactor grad, but the ones we got were great hires. They were smart and knew the right technologies (eg. Babel, React), plus they were well-rounded. One had a PhD or Masters (I forget which) in Biology and the other was a Chinese Literate major who spoke both Chinese and Japanese fluently.

I got the sense that Hack Reactor had other similarly qualified graduates as well.