Hi Josh, I will comment on this only as developer not as an employer. My friend recently completed Dev Bootcamp and landed a job in the Bay Area about 3 months after. His starting salary was around $90k from what he told me. My friend had been trying to kick start a career as developer for a few years. He was a graphic designer so he know his way around HTML5, etc. He started with PHP but not having hands-on experience he was unable to get hired. From discussions I've had with him, he's learned many of the best practices of the Ruby/Rails community. He's also expressed that he felt more than comfortable taking on tasks he was assigned at his new job.
Having said this, he has lived in the Bay Area for years and will continue to live there where the job market for Rails developers is strong. I am hit up by recruiters from the Bay Area on LinkedIn at least 2-3 times a week about some "amazing" Rails job opening in San Francisco. I have only been hit up by a recruiter in San Diego one time that I can remember. My story is probably meaningless because the important people to ask are the employers. If I was you, I would pose the question to people who are actually hiring in San Diego. Maybe some who are on this list will respond and let you know if they consider a Dev Bootcamp equivalent to X years of experience. Kevin On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Joshua Sherman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi SD Ruby - I just left my career as a TV sitcom writer's assistant to try > something new in San Diego (my fiancé has a career here, and I made myself > choose her or Hollywood - so obviously her!). I'm 28, with a good > understanding of HTML/CSS, and I have a math-oriented brain. I took the > UCSD Intro to Programming Java class, but it left me wanting more. > > I don't know anything about Ruby, but Dev Bootcamp seems like a really fun > way to learn Ruby and come out with a basic understanding - enough to get a > Junior Developer job, maybe. Dev Bootcamp is in San Francisco, but > ultimately, I hope to work in San Diego. > > So my question: is Ruby a valuable language in San Diego? Or is it a > language better suited to the technologies being built in San Francisco? > > Thanks everyone! > > -Josh > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
