Codesmith is …. Not It. Go elsewhere. AMA

I've worked with (bias disclosure, co-founder of a coaching program for experienced engineers) a wide range of alumni from right after Codesmith, during Codesmith, down the road, people who work at Codesmith, and everyone is super professional, polite, hard working, and driven. I've been the target of several attacks (where people have told me that posts were shared in both official internal slacks and unofficial discords) where alumni, staff, etc... have said some pretty mean things personal things about me but I think it's a very small number of peopel. Codesmith has been extremely defensive to things that I've called out. I criticized their "sponsored talks" for a lack of proper referencing of content and they staunchly defended that telling the entire student base that I'm wrong and incorrectly quoted laws that don't apply. All of that because a student blatantly copied the code samples in their presentation and I told him them reference it next time. They still don't have proper referencing of material but instead of trying to learn about how to properly reference things from this their staff has been incredibly defensive and several students mocked me for being "wrong" - according to Codesmith leaders and not their own research