u/InTheDarkDancing wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Lol I didn't want to get into the existential debate over this topic and derail the thread, but I don't think OSLabs is ubiquitous enough to have caused an entire industry hiring shift. If I asked ten random SWEs at my job if they heard of Codesmith I would maybe get one yes. If
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Yeah the whole industry has this problem, and it's not Codesmith causing the entire thing. A very common pattern is people who have "3 years of self employed contracting" when they were just on Upwork and never even had a single contract. Or they did volunteer work that they call "contracting work".
I've seen everything under the sun and talk to my friends a lot about it.
The way most Codesmith alumni portray their experience though is by the one that triggers most people and makes then have a negative view of Codesmith. "scam", "liars", "no integrity" are words used.
The weakness in the approach is that all the code is public and anyone can read it - very few do - and those that do see how embarrassing it can be to portray those projects as months/1+ years of "experience".
You're right that it is what it is is, and the industry and the market will adjust.
It's why DS&A is prevalent at top companies - it normalizes the evaluation and gives everyone a shot to prove their skills as individuals and not as "Codesmith grads" or "self taught" or "Harvard grad"