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I actually don't recommend any bootcamp for 2023 - A review of bootcamps

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u/EinsteinsLabradoodle wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Kind of reads to me like a positive for Codesmith and a negative for Tech Elevator. I believe a good program is allowed to be very picky, to the point of even just selecting folks who would make it anyway, if that’s what it takes to raise the value of their stamp / signify that t

u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Having talked to a very wide spectrum of Codesmith grads, from those who loved it and wanted more, to those who hated it and wanted more, to those who hated it and never want to talk about bootcamps every again, to those that loved it so much that they won't even look anything without a Codesmith lens and are limited themselves and closed off to growing their careers at the rate their could if they were more open minded, to those that were meh about it and got fired from their first job after 9 months and are a little lost, to those say they couldn't have gotten their first job without Codesmith but it prepared them zero for the actual day to day. The world is complicated. One thing for sure is that if you are accepted into Codesmith, you are likely to be successful at a number of similar top programs, because their bar is high, they have strong consistency in that bar, and they have a lot a integrity in their bar. They select for people who are Codesmithy and the definition of that person is a specific subset of someone who has strong potential to be a successful engineer. What this is missing though is that it's one very specific type of person and a specific way of getting that person a job. If you are that person, GO THERE! If you aren't that person, it doesn't mean you can't do just as well or better, but you need to have a different path.