Currently in Codesmith, question for former students?

RE: Formation's growth. I might have explained too many details about the growth. From the Fellow point of view you would only perceive more support and improved tasks and sessions. The goal here isn't to automate away but to enhance what humans are capable of doing. The number of live mentor sessions we don't expect to change much as they are some of the most important practice opportunities. RE: Code reviews. Yes, from experienced engineers on bugs, tasks, and take home assignments we assign you. No, on code review for personal projects (officially, but possibly case by case). RE: beyond DS&A. We have FAANG recruiters and managers around as well to answer questions and mock interviews and sessions in the job hunt phase (once your skills are deemed at the bar), Formation is far from just technical training alone. We have hired back two Fellows as full time SWEs. We have 5 senior (like 5, 10, 15, 20 yr FAANG experienced engineers) and we have 2 junior engineers (who we hired after they did Formation). We hope to hire more junior and mid level engineers from Formation itself over time. We have I believe 3 or 4 Fellows who have come back as mentors because they are so good at specific sessions. We work with people of all kinds of experience levels and your peer Fellows might even be senior FAANG/ex-FAANG engineers. So while the majority of mentors are senior top tier engineers, they are also good at teacher - which is a rarer combination to have both. We are a technology company at heart and I don't think any Fellows would be hired as interns to contribute to Formation's codebase itself as a contractor or intern. Perhaps for creating or contributing practice problems. We might consider doubling down on our practical tasks and bugs and developing more unique options for people to turn into portfolio work, but we need to focus and this isn't a priority right now. It might be if we expanded more to people with zero experience.