How long does codesmith work with you until you get a job?

I'm sorry you feel that way. I understand and acknowledge that there's a reason/"agenda" for me to be active on this sub. My life's mission is to help software engineers from non-traditional and underrepresented engineering backgrounds break into the top tier impactful roles. I was at Facebook for 8 years, from 2009 to 2017 and saw such hard working people were building products for billions of people but lacking a more diverse set of voices in doing so. This is an industry wide issue. Sophie first created a free bootcamp called Buildschool to help people get their first jobs. In getting to know bootcamps and meeting their founders, she realized that the broader bootcamp industry has already helped tens of thousands of brand new engineers, from diverse backgrounds, get started in their careers with their first jobs, but most lacked fundamentals, rigorous practice, and interaction with top tier engineers that their peers from Stanford and Harvard had to grow quickly in their careers. So I joined to create Formation to help level the playing field for slightly more experienced engineers. Being able to work directly with senior/staff/principal engineers who have accomplished careers is a challenge, so our team is building products from the ground up to make this happen. By eliminating a fixed length, fixed curriculum and breaking down everything you do into tiny pieces, we train each person on a unique path that adapts to their growth and progress. And this includes sessions with super senior mentors, several times a week, at the right time and for the right reasons. So helping people out with advising early in their careers, and years down the road with Formation, is part of my agenda. Regarding "a former fellow". We aren't perfect and we debrief any negative feedback with the team to improve or see what happened. We pride ourselves on working with people (who keep putting in the work) indefinitely until they get a job they are happy with. In general, for people that take longer in the job hunt, we keep iterating and training until there is a happy outcome, and sometimes it goes off the beaten path. The outcome is the priority. "Predatory practice and inflate their numbers" however is defamatory and false. We don't publish many numbers because we stand behind the ones we do, and Fellows certainly don't have access to anyone else's compensation information. As long as people keep doing the work, we work with you as hard as it takes until you get a job, even if we're losing money doing so, because it's our promise.