u/Suspicious-Engineer7 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
From what I've seen, I agree with this take. You want to talk about back room drama and false promises? Go to any university - it's 100x worse. You have to compare to the alternatives. I actually admire the 'immoral' coaching - it's not a level playing field out there, and it's t
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
I'm in the CIRR is super flawed, why doesn't Codesmith improve it or replace it, but that is' not a fraud camp.
I'm concerned about the OSLabs stuff though. They made an official charity out of OSLabs in the middle of last year that pays mentors to mentor students. If they are collecting money from the charity to pay mentors to mentor Codesmith students only, that may be criminal, or may be a tax law violation. There's no way they aren't smart enough to figure out a way to make this work legally, but it's playing with fire.
Like if I, representing Formation, approached OSLabs about a collaboration to provide mentors and to work on projects or something, would they act in the best interest of OSLabs or would we get rejected because Codesmith leadership hates me? Eric Kirsten was advertising a job posting at OSLabs for the Executive Director saying to ping him if interesting.... I worked at Facebook and have been though crazy legal discovery processes and if Eric has some influence over this role and OSLabs isn't independent and someone goes looking, don't think those deleted emails and Slack messages are actually deleted lol.