u/smells_serious wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
You're welcome to talk more about your audits if you feel so inclined as my source is absolutely uncorroborated. Rereading my part actually made me cringe because it made me seem petty. I just have/had a problem with his methods of recruitment. He claims to be here to only shar
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
Just to clarify for other people reading this. Codesmith vs Formation is not a choice for most people. The vast majority of people are Formation are working as engineers and doing it part time, or have worked for 1 - 3 years and taking a pause). We have one person I currently know of that felt Formation was a better fit than Codesmith, and 10+ Codesmith alumni at various points in their careers. Most of these alumni come in at a middle of the road junior DS&A skill bar, slightly above the minimum we are confident working with but still clearly in the middle junior bucket and that is our lowest experience bucket. So the vast majority of people before Codesmith aren't choosing between the two. I recommend Codesmith to a lot of people who have no experience a couple times a week in DMs.
I do believe there are a very small number of people at Codesmith (I heard recently one or two in each cohort) who are experienced and those people absolutely should be considering Formation and looking at which program is the right fit specifically for them.
EDIT: I've mentioned this before, but we consider our competitors Pathrise, Interview Kickstart, Outco, Scalar, Exponent, and to some extent Interviewing.io