Codesmith is …. Not It. Go elsewhere. AMA

Open Source Project. 4 weeks at Codesmith are spent coming up with a group project, building the project, releasing it as a new open source project OR releasing a new version of an existing project, marketing the project, and then updating your resume to reflect the project. The controversy around them is 1. Most people list the project as a company and as a Software Engineer (with very fine print "Project supported by a accelerator OSLabs") 2. Most people list the time spent on it as 3 to 18 months (the average being about 6) 3. The average person only committed 2 to 3 commits on the projects over 2 to 3 weeks in a sample of 200 GitHub profiles analyzed a year ago 4. The projects are supervised by a former student as a mentor who typically don't have any or much industry experience, but the projects claim they are "mid to senior level work equivalent" Don't get me wrong, the projects are great compared to most bootcamps and I love them! I just don't think it's fair how they are represented or framed, specifically as number 4 above, where employees reinforce this several times.