u/fluffyr42 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
This is super helpful! Just from anecdotal experience, it sounds like people are having hit or miss experiences with Hack Reactor recently. I'm also hearing mixed feedback on Codesmith, with students wanting a more hands on experience. I'd also realllllllly take it with a grain o
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
We just went through a period of time where some companies with extremely high cash-compensation and low equity and performance bonus compensation (i.e. Amazon and Capital One) were hiring people left right and center if they had a pulse, no criminal record, and could solve Leetcode Medium problems under pressure.
Codesmith got a lot of credit for their 2021 outcomes on Reddit, based on how well they optimize the job hunting strategy for those companies above. And I suspect they will also be hit very hard in their outcomes with the 2nd half of 2022 and be overly blamed on Reddit as "Codesmith falling apart". It will be a whole year from now before we'll see those results though! which is far too long IMO.
As I learned at Facebook: when there is good press about you, things are never as good as people say, and when there is bad press things are never usually that bad. Codesmith as a school has done a great job scaling while maintaining the same quality of instruction they had at much smaller scale and their leaders are probably just as equally passionate about teaching and training. Their H2 2021 outcomes were really high, but they were delayed compared to others and downplayed on Codesmith's marketing (their website is very out of date) and I think they are expecting the next wave of outcomes to be lower and already on top of the marketing strategy haha.