Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

If you've never had a job or you've never seen another book like this, then maybe this book is OK. But honestly, there is nothing new in this book that wasn't written 20 years ago when I started working. This looks to be nothing more than a bunch of rehashed job search common sense. -- The writing style is horrible. It's basically written in bullet points, with a bunch of white space, and bolding. Take out all the unnecessary white space and this book is easily half it's current size. Throw in decent writing style and you'd get to a third its size. -- Much of the stuff in here is incredibly basic. I presume if you've never left your parents' basement all this may be new stuff to you, but most of it is just "common sense", which again may not be as common as I think. -- Much of the book seems like nothing more than advertising. Heck, there is an Amazon link to the book in the book. You've already bought it, why do you need a link to it? -- The chapter on boot camps is non-sense and reads like an advertisement for boot camps. Before you sign-up for a boot camp, please, please, please talk to someone that attended one. Multiple people. And be highly skeptical of the glowing reviews that claim attending a boot camp was just shy of reaching nirvana. Boot camps vary greatly in quality and despite all the glowing reviews you'll see online, there are a lot of negative experiences that never get posted because of pressure from the boot camps themselves. Some boot camps even threaten legal action if you speak of them negatively anywhere on the Internet. Also, many boot camps these days instruct you not to put the boot camp on your resume because of the negative perception/experience employers have had with boot camps. Even "top" boot camps are doing this. I'll leave out names, but it should be evident which are the top boot camps if you're looking into attending one. I'm not saying there aren't good boot camps, but just cautioning you to do a LOT of research and investigative work before dropping $10k+ on what is essentially an intro to web development course. -- Regarding hiring a resume writer, again, buyer beware. I just did such a thing through CareerCup, the site related to Hacking the Coding Interview, and for not a little money my new resume got a little wordsmithing and moved one section around on the page. Essentially no material change. So either I'm an awesome resume writer or I just had a really bad experience. Again, perhaps if you really have no idea how to even approach writing a resume, a resume writer might be a good investment. But I've compared my resume, that I wrote on my own by doing nothing more than following images of resume samples from an interwebs search, against samples pro writers are showing on their sites as samples of their work, and there is no material difference. So at least to start, save yourself the $500 mentioned in the book and find a good looking sample on the web and use that as a template. -- I could go on... I would say the only real benefit to this book is that is gives a high level summary of the major topics of finding a job and what you need to know to be a decent dev. But you can do this easily through reading blogs and such and copying/pasting into the word processor or note taker of your choice. That's the only reason I gave it 2 stars, for the summary.