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People love to bicker about bootcamps vs. college degrees for breaking into tech, but honestly? It’s not as black and white as everyone makes it out to be.
Degrees, yeah, they’re supposed to make you some kind of algorithm wizard. I mean, folks coming out of four years of computer science usually know their way around Big O notation and all that jazz. And, let’s be real, some employers still drool over fancy diplomas because it screams, “Look, I suffered through calculus and didn’t quit!” There’s something to be said for that.
But then you’ve got bootcamp grads—these folks are like, “Give me a laptop and a caffeine IV, I’ll build you a website by next week.” They’re scrappy, hungry, and usually banging out projects left and right. They might not know the difference between a heap and a stack (sometimes, anyway), but they sure as hell know how to get stuff done and pick up new tech on the fly. I’ve worked with both, and let me tell you, you get some real rockstars from both sides.
And the job market? It’s kinda wild lately. More and more companies care about what you can actually do, not just what pieces of paper you’ve collected. Show up with a killer GitHub and some side projects? You might just edge out the person who can recite sorting algorithms in their sleep.
Bottom line: it’s not really about bootcamp vs. degree—it’s about hustle, curiosity, and whether you can keep learning when the tech world throws its next curveball. So, will degrees become obsolete? Doubtful. But being adaptable and actually knowing your stuff? That’s never going out of style.
Degrees, yeah, they’re supposed to make you some kind of algorithm wizard. I mean, folks coming out of four years of computer science usually know their way around Big O notation and all that jazz. And, let’s be real, some employers still drool over fancy diplomas because it screams, “Look, I suffered through calculus and didn’t quit!” There’s something to be said for that.
But then you’ve got bootcamp grads—these folks are like, “Give me a laptop and a caffeine IV, I’ll build you a website by next week.” They’re scrappy, hungry, and usually banging out projects left and right. They might not know the difference between a heap and a stack (sometimes, anyway), but they sure as hell know how to get stuff done and pick up new tech on the fly. I’ve worked with both, and let me tell you, you get some real rockstars from both sides.
And the job market? It’s kinda wild lately. More and more companies care about what you can actually do, not just what pieces of paper you’ve collected. Show up with a killer GitHub and some side projects? You might just edge out the person who can recite sorting algorithms in their sleep.
Bottom line: it’s not really about bootcamp vs. degree—it’s about hustle, curiosity, and whether you can keep learning when the tech world throws its next curveball. So, will degrees become obsolete? Doubtful. But being adaptable and actually knowing your stuff? That’s never going out of style.
