You don’t need a coding bootcamp

You don't _need_ a coding bootcamp, but they can be a hell of a way to focus the mind. Yes, you can learn a lot of the coding skills individually, but a bootcamp will instil much of that knowledge in a very concentrated period of time, in a manner that leaves you open to more without becoming dogmatised in a particular way of doing things and - get this - involves doing it with other people. That means you're ready to enter Agile teams if you so wish.

Also, absolutely no-one coming out of a bootcamp would say they're ready for a senior or even mid-level developer job. Categorically no-one. I have no idea where the author got that sentiment.

I've commented on boot camps before.

They are recruitment 2.0, in which they are trying to farm developers. A lot of the bootcamps in the UK have deals with big firms to allocate X developers per cohort to them.

Its a great business model, people pay them to essentially be motivated to learn publically accessible data, then they get some "help" finding a dev job. Then the hiring company pays the bootcamp a fee as well.

Not great for existing developers who then spend time babysitting the bootcampers, who I would say require more effort and time than graduates or juniors.