“A mere 4~ years and 4 jobs later I now make 175,000 dollars as a senior software engineer.”
A $7,500 bootcamp, a few hundred hours of grinding, and a $52,000 first offer in the Midwest. The bootcamp taught nothing you can’t get free online. Its real product was a handshake with local employers. Four job hops later the salary more than tripled, which says more about how companies underpay loyal staff than about bootcamps.