u/Stingy_Arachnid wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
1. That depends on how much work people are putting in after graduation. Folks who spend a lot of time practicing, applying, and interviewing get jobs sooner, roughly ~1-3 months. Anyone wanting to land a tech job though will get it faster but putting more hours into the job hunt
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I think the OP is referring to the fact that if you lookup students by those projects to "find them on LinkedIn" (because otherwise it would be hard to find them) that a significant amount of people have no new job after the open source projects. I've also found this the time a few months ago when I audited 200 graduates and the percentage with jobs was low (it's REALLY hard to get start dates for people because people tend to ambiguously list the start as "2021" or "2022" rather than the exact months so I assume most of the people I looked at that appeared to have 6+ months of experience were current students). I've also seen some people entirely scrub their LinkedIn after getting a job and removing all those projects so that makes it further harder.
I think the answer to this is to look at CIRR and trust the graduations rates and placement rates! Look carefully at what the numbers mean, i.e. 90% graduating on time + 80% placed in 6 months = 72% of people who started getting placed in 6 months. And being a "fellow" delays the clock by 3 months as well.
But I would go with the CIRR numbers because trying to find stuff on LinkedIn will give you an incorrect interpretation for Codesmith.