u/InTheDarkDancing wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
This comes across as a pretty big reach. It seems you're trying to link the bad management of the website domain, which most likely is not within Codesmith's control, with the integrity of the CIRR reports. I don't want to pretend I know all the inner-workings of CIRR, but as far
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
I don't think I questioned the integrity of the results in my post. When you have been calling CIRR the "gold standard" if you meant the specification itself or the auditing process was industry leading you are extremely mistaken and every bootcamp leader I've talked to agrees. And I take all of their words over a Codesmith alumni who has no context there.
I have read the CIRR standards doc (which I can't link anymore because the site is still down) many times and there are many problems due to lack of attention to detail. And they have similar problems attention to detail in managing their domain name.
The reason I mentioned Codesmith, is that if you are telling your students "studies show that Codesmith is better than Harvard and MIT" (this is a quote a few people shared with me), and in your own description calling yourself competitive to "elite grad schools", then the bar is high and you sure as heck bet I'm going to be holding them to that bar.
A lot of people stayed on the Titanic as it was sinking, and a lot of people tried to get out. If I was Codesmith, I would get out and make my own standard, like Hack Reactor did when they saw the signs years ago.