u/MundaneValuable7 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Makes sense. I worked with a Codesmith grad who was hired on as an intermediate dev who said he had zero work experience coding. When I checked his linked in he put open source contributions that lasted over a year as his experience and when I looked into them they were dinky t
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
A couple of notes. They are "legally" associated with OSLabs, a completely separate charity that seems to have a lot of ties to Codesmith but is not Codesmith. OSLabs signs the letters of reference for these people (it's a Codesmith employee too, but he's also a Board Member of OSLabs).
And second, yeah anyone can audit the GitHub projects for OSLabs and see how the vast vast majority have 2-3 weeks of contributions from each member, in these spike patterns following the cohort cycle that you don't see on any real open source projects. One of the projects had console.log(password) in the authentication code - and password wasn't hashed at this point.
But employers - especially the smaller companies that hire Codesmith grads - don't look at this stuff and are just happy to interview people with experience on their resume!