Background Check Question

You should be super honest on the background check forms, even if they don't align with your resume and I've seen this a few times with Codesmith alumni. They have a semi-sketchy process for getting verified and they will verify your entire time in the program as experience on the OSP, even though it was 4 weeks and the evidence they give you in writing fooled several people I tested with who thought it was a verification letter for a SWE role. Assuming the hiring company is using a large common company like HireRight or Checkr, they are checking for two things: 1. Do you have any red flags: e.g. a criminal record that might be relevant to the job? 2. Can they verify the information you put on the background check? The report they send back isn't a pass/fail, but it's more like "able to verify"/"not able to verify". Sometimes a totally legit job can't be verified because the company refuses to respond and has no obligation to. Ultimately it's on you and what you want to do. You can put it on there following the program's advice and get verified as per their instructions. Or you can omit it and risk losing the job if you have a blank experience section and it comes back as no experience to verify... when they were under the impression you had like 2 years of experience. Anyways, when I talk about Codesmith, I get super attacked and I have a bunch of fake accounts following me now that manipulate voting on my posts, so I don't really want to talk more about Codesmith, but feel free to message me privately for completely blunt advice on how to handle it based on your resume, the hiring company, and the company doing the background check.