What's a no CS degree, zero experience, experienced a short boot camp, was hoping this would be his break and spent a shit ton of money on it, person gotta do to get a developer job?

Get experience. Learn via some private side project in programming. On the job end, you could first land a tester job, then change over to dev later.

@Fast-Nop I've heard about getting in as a tester then eventually switching. Is it easy to switch?

Make that GitHub repo collection worth while, and focus more on creating projects then forking everything you see. I don't care what you're interested in, I'm interested in how you build your projects and more importantly if they can even be built.

Find a small business that will take a chance, and work your way up from there. Not every fairy tale started with a FAANG company.

@C0D4 thanks for the advice. I heard that I shouldn't showcase the projects I built while doing the boot camp.

@CosmicDante Depends on how you're approaching the change. If you just perform your tests and call it a day, then not.

However, a good tester needs to understand the system anyway, and good communication between dev and testing is crucial.

You'll approach the code from the perspective "what do I have to do in order to break it", i.e. finding bugs. Soak up as much knowledge as you can. Devs will usually be happy to explain because testers who actually know what they're doing are a blessing.

It can even go as far as having dev discussions with the tester because the latter often has more hands-on experience and can (as well as should) provide that feedback into the decision process.

On the other hand, you'll need to ramp up your dev skills also, and since you're probably not worth hiring as dev right now, that would be private effort.

@CosmicDante add them if you did the work, if it's just "copy/paste" kind of stuff I wouldn't bother.

Build out some small programs, show you can write decent code and tests and go from there, leave instructions behind on how to get your projects actually running and who knows, someone might take an interest.

Another option is breaking into dev as a automaton tester, but make sure it's automation! A lot of tester work is usually manual work unfortunately.

@Fast-Nop I see, I'll look at some common testing platforms and see how I can get started from there. I wish more people would recommend this path. A lot of fresh-out-of-bootcamp entry level devs don't know about this.

@C0D4 Yeah, they are projects I built myself but they don't do much aside from simple api crud operations.

@CosmicDante first off is you gotta sell yourself

@jeeper how do I do that?

@CosmicDante focus on what you CAN do. Research about how the company operates, and the role you want. You are selling this company an organic machine (you) that can help them make a profit by doing the role you are applying for. How does that machine contribute to the revenue of the company?

Also there is tons of interview prep on YouTube. Just get a dose of the technical side and the presentation/ personal side.

you gotta know how to program.
which bootcamp probably didn't help you with.