Feels about right

Hi, sure, happy to respond with thoughts. RE: Formation. It is absolutely harder to get FAANG interviews right now than in the past. The goal of Formation is to increase the chances of passing these interviews and to help you get these interview. When the companies are hiring, it's easier for us to send over some profiles to a recruiter and get you in the pipeline. When recruiter jobs themselves are at risk it's harder to do that. But we help you find the right path to companies given the market, and occasional one offs happen and occasionally a recruiter will respond to you. RE: OSP. Honestly the projects are not good and everyone knows it. They are open source and anyone can look at the code! Non functional, commented out code, reviewed and mentored by someone who just graduated Codesmith and has no experience. I know the vision of the projects is much greater, but in reality they are nothing more than a very good group project. Regardless of what Phil or Eric K says, everyone on the ground knows this and expresses it privately, but unfortunately people are really quick to judge based on outcomes alone. Just because Codesmith has good outcomes doesn't mean everything they do is right. Not saying anything about the integrity of their outcomes or marketing. RE: Formation practical work. Yeah we can do a lot more to help people get resume value. But we don't care at all what you do for show.. we care that you actually improve your skills and believe if you improve your skills continuously and never stop, until you become hired at a good company. Since we work with you however long it takes, it works, just not on a guaranteed timeframe.