u/bootcampTA wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Thanks for the reply. I will confess that my opinion on the consensus is mostly shaped by Reddit mentions/stories, with a bit of the paid review sites thrown in. My big concern with HR is that they dropped out of CIRR, and the precourse has not been updated in quite a while.
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I think they are generally similar yeah in that the materials are similar and they move at similar paces, and you should look at the day to day. Codesmith has a very tight community of awesome people as it's a bit smaller than HR. HR has a fantastic alumni network as well and it's much larger than Codesmith's but I feel like Codesmith alumni really "stay in the family".... just look at how many alumni come back in some capacity to teach or help out... almost every instructor at Codesmith WENT to Codesmith. People aside, Codesmith has really figured out the resume/job hunt process that works and has scaled to like 150-200 simultaneous students or so. Launch School's Capstone is in my opinion stronger but they take like 30 people at a time.
When it comes to HR vs Codesmith I often ask people's timeframes and their goals because both are solid options. Codesmith is slightly better if you have no fixed timeframe (i.e. can wait for both an opening and for job hunting) and for generally more ambitious and people who hustle