u/Better-Improvement14 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Thanks for the answer. By "doing things for resume" do you mean coding projects?
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
Codesmith is really focused on efficiently doing things to build up a resume that appears really good on the surface. They also do a good job teaching, but I just mean the priority is to make it all look good to help people get jobs, i.e. getting resumes past screens.
One thing is the open source projects that a lot of people ambiguously label as Software Engineer jobs at companies. The projects have websites and all the Codesmith people like and promote each other's projects to build momentum. Not bad stuff, just very focused on making it look good. The actual projects don't have outside people working on them and are like really really good college class group projects that got portrayed a little more like company like engineering work. And there is a playbook for every project that is the same flow. The Codesmith way.
Another thing is these tech talks that people do. They prepare for a tech talk on a generic subject for about 2 days, they record the talk publish it through Single Sprout which is a recruiting hiring agency, and then list that they were invited to give a tech talk on their resumes. Again, not bad stuff, but the focus is on stuff for your resume rather than the depth of the subject matter in my opinion, they might disagree but I'm giving my opinion with 10+ years FAANG.
Overall compared to a lot of bootcamps these things really do stand out and are much stronger, the downside is that it's like a playbook implemented by alumni, alumni teachers, and alumni mentors and they all push the exact same playbook.