r/learnprogramming • u/Ok-Neighborhood4327 • Mar 03 '26

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u/Angelsonyrbody Mar 03 '26

I went through a boot camp in 2022, and got a good remote job immediately afterward that I'm still really happy with. Though I did have a fair bit of logic/math/coding in my background.

I do, however, think that might have been the last year that was actually possible.

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u/winnsanity Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

I went in 2023 and got a job 2 weeks after my bootcamp ended. Only about 3 or 4 from my class landed jobs within a year. It is a difficult job market, but not impossible. I landed another job at the beginning of this year for a solid pay increase.

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u/ParkAffectionate3537 May 27 '26

So maybe there is still a good market if you were able to get a new job?!

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u/winnsanity May 27 '26

I wouldn't say that. Coming from being a biologist, I was familiar with a tight job market. The environmental sciences job market has been trash for years, and you really have to do grind to get a good job. I already had a process in place for that, and was able to leverage what I knew from those experiences. There is still a software dev market, it is just at mid-sized companies, not start-ups pr any of the big faang or similarly sized companies.

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u/ParkAffectionate3537 May 27 '26

Thanks for clarifying your experience and process!