And you don't need to tell them you went to a boot camp. So if you get hired without mentioning it you won't deal with that bias.
In reality all good coders are self taught - you can't really teach this stuff. You have to learn to play, to explore the solution space and figure out the different ways of composing your raw materials. And you need to do this over and over again throughout your career as new materials become available. Self-teaching never stops.
You can read about it all you want but unless you are doing it, you are not going to grow.
I never learnt how to code though, but I know a lot of technical stuff.
So I legitimately thought that "hey, I can learn to code in a few months"
Nope. 12 weeks is hilariously less to truly understand coding.
You can, at most, mimic the actions of the teacher.
It took me quitting, then months of idle rumination to understand what a recursive loop could be used for.
In hindsight, I know what I did wrong and what I should have done instead.
I'd say it took me at least a year of failing before I could gather my bearings and understand what was going on.
For a junior web developer position? Yes, absolutely.
And it turns out that junior web developers make a shit ton of money in the bay area.
A whole lot of companies do not need serious CS algorithms experts. A whole lot of companies merely need blue collar, CRUD web devs to build their CRUD angular react node web app.
Being a crud web devoper is still a pretty good gig.
Part of the problem is the high salary comes with the expectation of quick growth.
I think a lot of bootcamp graduates come up short.
But, that's not who these things are aimed at. New programmers need time to absorb the fundamentals of programming. Getting pushed through some fast-paced program is the worst way to absorb anything.
I do like the idea of hopping right into writing applications vs the more traditional route, but it needs to be over years, not weeks.
11 hours a day for 12 weeks can't compare with two hours a day for a year.