I've been working in the computer industry for over 30 years and I never went to school I was self-taught and never took any boot camp and never went to a diploma mill either so I know that those resumes generally get thrown in the trash, but if you're going to talk the talk, you got to walk the walk too so the real test is on the interview(s)....if you can pass the interview(s) then generally you can get the job but you also have to be able to do the job so whatever it is that you're claiming that you're an expert in you should really try to be one. This goes with any trade, especially the ones that don't require licenses by law.
Prior to the web in the 1990s I would say it was a lot harder than it is today to try to figure out and become the guru kind of person that you needed to be in the early 1990s and it was a lot of it was because the just there was not a lot of material about the subject matter like Unix and software engineering and just the web was not available there was no PDF so today it's a lot easier than it used to be for sure, I'm saying to become self-taught. anybody can download a PDF about some subject matter read it spend a lot of time and become an expert, compared to anything prior to the early 1990s. The way that I became an expert in the early 1990s was by reading source code and figuring things out because there was just no documentation for anything. as a matter of fact the reason why I got into software engineering in the first place was because so much stuff was broken and just never worked that I spent more time debugging software than I did actually using it...
as far as experience, you can get experience just by volunteering or doing internships and then using that as leverage on your resume to get real jobs when you don't have experience. When I was in my early teens I volunteered at random internet/BBS providers to fix their broken systems, and this turns into experience that you can put on your resume.
Prior to the web in the 1990s I would say it was a lot harder than it is today to try to figure out and become the guru kind of person that you needed to be in the early 1990s and it was a lot of it was because the just there was not a lot of material about the subject matter like Unix and software engineering and just the web was not available there was no PDF so today it's a lot easier than it used to be for sure, I'm saying to become self-taught. anybody can download a PDF about some subject matter read it spend a lot of time and become an expert, compared to anything prior to the early 1990s. The way that I became an expert in the early 1990s was by reading source code and figuring things out because there was just no documentation for anything. as a matter of fact the reason why I got into software engineering in the first place was because so much stuff was broken and just never worked that I spent more time debugging software than I did actually using it...
as far as experience, you can get experience just by volunteering or doing internships and then using that as leverage on your resume to get real jobs when you don't have experience. When I was in my early teens I volunteered at random internet/BBS providers to fix their broken systems, and this turns into experience that you can put on your resume.