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This is true for the most part. They are working on updating their materials by having alumni in the industry give official feedback. The ethos of education is "hard learning" and they want you to learn how to learn when overwhelmed, so I don't think they care that much about the curriculum. But enough people have complained I think they are looking into it. I kept a close on on the staff backgrounds since I was shocked to see the vast majority of alumni exaggerating their OSP experience in number 4.a. I investigated after numerous staff members where I work didn't realize Codesmith alumni had no experience based on their resumes and the people were not super clear in their interviews either :(. There are about 80ish +/- a lot out of 130ish employees on their website that are alumni of Codesmith itself (it fluctuates a lot, check for yourself!) 50ish are TAs/Fellows, 15ish are career support/advisors/interviews, 10ish are instructors or lead instructors, and a sprinkling of other jobs. I found one teacher who wasn't a Codesmith grad and they were an alumni of another program. To me this doesn't reflect poorly on the quality though, it's a sign of intense commitment from the alumni community. The problems from this that I've seen are a "family-like" mentality where people are super defensive of Codesmith, and no one has any experience outside of the Codesmith ecosystem to add. So extreme reinforcement of the "codesmith way of doing things", which is good when times are good, and comes across quite defensive and stubborn when times are bad.