Please don't do that; it's effectively turning "makes minimum wage" into an insult. There are plenty of people that earn minimum wage that are good people, doing their best, and (in many cases) doing a very good job. This is exactly the kind of wording that turned various minority terms into insults, as we shouldn't be doing it.
I see your point, but in my case above the term usage is correct. By stating "minimum wage level understanding" I am equating the work they do to be equal to what a untrained minimum wage employee is expected to be able to accomplish. These "boot camp developers" are not engineers, and are barely developers at all. They are logical pattern repeaters, with an extremely short list of logical patterns they know how to use. Presented with the open ended work actual software developers are commonly tasked, they reach for an ungodly large number of supports and produce these modern code crap piles that are growing oversized data centers, duplicating all over the landscape. They're fantastic for selling more servers, and that is about all these boot camp developers are good for - we end up cleaning up their crap piles anyway.
Please don't do that; it's effectively turning "makes minimum wage" into an insult. There are plenty of people that earn minimum wage that are good people, doing their best, and (in many cases) doing a very good job. This is exactly the kind of wording that turned various minority terms into insults, as we shouldn't be doing it.