u/metalreflectslime wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
> And you can't fake this work experience or stretch your resume - it's either 2 real YOE or not - faking your resume will just piss off hiring managers that will tell the recruiter that sent you over to never consider candidates from your bootcamp again and waste their time. Ho
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
They don't actually get away with it all the time, but because they are so small in the grand scheme of things, it works enough to make a difference for individual students. Other than Capital One, which is a very large company that the alumni have a machine to get you into (referring each other to jobs and practicing known questions with them), alumni spread across hundreds of companies. There are some small companies that explicitly love Codemsith grads and no need to use the Codesmith-style resume there. But most people are just slipping under the radar with a recruiter that misses this.
More importantly - Codesmith students are generally wonderful people and perform well enough on the job (even putting in hours of extra work a day to keep up) so that most companies don't look back and question the on paper experience later on.