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CIRR board member shakeup, four people out, Codesmith in, anyone know anything?

r/codingbootcamp

u/michaelnovati wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Unbiased? "We make money through inquiry generation. This means that bootcamps pay us to appear in various advertising placements across our site (marked with the word "Advertisement or "Ad") and if a user clicks on an advertising school, they will have the option to submit a fo

u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
To add to this. At Switchup.org, the ["Write a Review"](https://www.switchup.org/write-review) page says I can win one of six Amazon Gift Cards for submitting a review, but it's said the exact thing since JANUARY 2020: [https://web.archive.org/web/20200109162505/https://www.switchup.org/write-review](https://web.archive.org/web/20200109162505/https://www.switchup.org/write-review) and every snapshot since then still has 6 gift cards available. Apparently no one has won them, or they perpetually refresh the gift card pool and you have a random chance of winning, and then they just refresh the pool again. Second, the ["Complete our additional 10 minute outcomes survey to be entered to win a $500 Amazon Gift Card!"](https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YMTFNWK) It's from 2020. So are they still collecting data the rigorous survey data for 2020? And who won this gift card? Finally, the copyright on the site is still from 2021, which means they don't seem to be frequently updating much here. But the reviews keep flooding in to all the top ranked bootcamps there... 🤷‍♂️