u/zerabellaa wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
It seems there's an overarching strategy that this man is employing: replying to anything and everything regarding "codesmith" on this sub. Then inserting his own company in the process. There is also a clear incentive for him to poach top codesmith alumni, and wheedle them into
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
There just happens to be a lot of talk about Codesmith in this sub. There is almost zero talk about Hackbright, BloomTech/Lambda School (who I know several former execs and is one of the largest bootcamps in the world), Springboard, all of which I'm fairly familiar with as well. There's a little bit of talk about Rithm, with whom I'm talking to the founder next week to catch up, and I talk about on here very neutrally no different than anyone else. I know a decent amount about CIRR and the early bootcamp founders.
We're early stage, we're relatively new, as the Codesmith alumni chug along through and share their experiences I hope you can have an open mind to figuring out what we are, the painting is not done yet and I am a small part of Formation. We have a crazy awesome team of people working their hardest to help each Fellow achieve and exceed their goals.
Sophie (founder) used to run a bootcamp called Buildschool that exists no more and that's where Formation came from. There was a really large need to help ambitious non-traditional engineers after their first jobs to get their second, third, forth jobs (we have Fellows who have come back already a second time to Formation) and we developed a ton of technology to excel at doing what we do.
The Codesmith ethos that I've seen with our Fellows from Codesmith is one of respect, hard work, discipline, professionalism and I enjoy working with those Fellows and following their journeys at Formation. I hope Codesmith continues to grow and scale, they have done a great job scaling so far and helped a lot of people transition into tech - much better than most bootcamps. That earns tremendous respect.