u/someone wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Copy and paste your specific Codesmith feedback here. I can’t imagine the only feedback you got is “do OOP on CSX”. Generally you are given 2-3 things to work on. This doesn’t sound like hard learning as much as something about the feedback not clicking with you. But yes, it
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
I've chatted briefly somewhere around 8 people in the past two to three months and there are a group of people who didn't get OOP at all and got accepted and most chose Codesmith, and another group of people that got OOP, some of whom were accepted and some rejected with somewhat blunt feedback like that. I don't know if the bar is variable depending on your background? I didn't get any kind of complete and useful data here, but just anecdotally people did not all get the same difficulty of questions. And surprisingly the people who didn't get OOP had more "imposter syndrome" about thinking they weren't good enough. And the people that were more like "I studied every last detail and did well on OOP and they rejected me" were more like confident.
I've also seen the unofficial places people share all the hard questions and try to study them all before applying. I guess it's not unlike any kind of system, like the SATs, where there is a test to weed out the most determined and smartest people, but I think the above observations are a good sign that Codesmith is looking for more than just raw coding.
I dunno, not much useful here to draw conclusions of off but something to think about maybe that you don't need to crush OOP to get in.
EDIT: the amount of people that message me about Codesmith is much higher than any other program btw, I don't have nearly as many messages from people not looking at Codesmith. Mostly Codesmith OR X conversations, which I give my 2 cents for which is better based on their personal circumstances.