u/akmalhot wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I've seen a couple mentions here of codesmith and hackreactor as beign top tier.. Seemed consistent with what I had seen over hte last year, with codesmith seeming to have an edge. I recently took and passed their tech screen and am supposed to start in the september cohort due t
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
I think both are strong. Neither will prepare you for a strong chance at passing Google though. Both have a handful of alumni ever that go to Google right out of the program in their first job.
At Formation for example, we work with bootcamp grads, and the vast majority of our Fellows get top tier jobs. With many at Google alone, and many TURNING DOWN Google.
So I've seen the transformation needed for most people post bootcamp to be at that level. I would like to clarify that most people we work with have work experience already post bootcamp, so the number that come directly from a bootcamp is smaller, but I'm including all of these people in one bucket, because presumably people who graduated and worked are farther ahead anyways than new grads.
I might get some comments on here saying that all Codesmith alumni are Google-ready because people get jobs at Google, so I want to emphasize that I'm talking about new grads right out of Codesmith on their first job, who have no prior work experience. There are a very very small number compared to their total number of graduates. Formation.dev works with a decent number of Codesmith alumni to help them get to that top tier bar consistently, like from having a small percent chance to working with them indefinitely until they hit that top tier bar and having a strong chance.