u/lungfisk wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
That sounds like a bad bootcamp. Mine had a full unit on DSA (binary trees, hash tables, linked lists, recursion, bubble & merge sort), and spent the first hour of every single day doing "Hack Hour" problems which were basically LC easies for the first half, and mediums for the
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
Codesmith grads get good jobs because they do large scale group projects that they leverage as work experience and get supported with references for background checks to maximize the legitimacy of those projects. It's a model working pretty well and I don't dispute the audited outcomes, BUT the DSA is absolutely not sufficient.
I'm very familiar with their DSA program, have interviewed many Codesmith grads, and have helped many Codesmith grads strengthen DSA to get top tier jobs. I was an E7 principal engineer at Facebook for 8 years, interviewed hundreds of people and am very familiar with the bar necessary.