Closing the Gap: How to Leap from Bootcamp to Job
summary
Five practical moves for bootcamp grads and hiring managers: follow a learning path (adjacent small steps), pick one deep specialty — be a T person — and build concrete artifacts like a gem or performance tuning work, read other projects — read the source — and join a local user group or cohort. Also track and demonstrate learning progress (projects, volunteer or domain work such as building software for clinical researchers) and hire for trajectory rather than whiteboard puzzles.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:48The Problem
- 3:10The Learning Path
- 5:44The Tea Person
- 9:04Read the Source
- 11:09Specialized by Domain
- 12:51Join a Local User Group
- 14:04Graduate School
- 19:46Neil Armstrong
- 22:21Hiring based on projection
- 28:44Institutional knowledge
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