u/Mindless_Level9327 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
You're all good. I thought the general points you made were good, I just didn't know what OSP stood for. That makes sense though. I appreciate you giving an example though. 3-4 weeks seems like a pretty short amount of time to get an actually worthwhile OSP done. Maybe that's the
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
Yeah a few things. It is a very very solid 3 week group capstone project. And they put a lot of effort in the presentation, like if you click that link it looks super buttoned up and legit in the writing and imagery and overview, etc...
But the problem I have (again, my opinion only) is that that 3 weeks gets represented as months of 'experience' - framed as an ambiguous job on LinkedIns and resumes. Many grads talk about it exclusively in interviews, for dozens of minutes talking about people-problems and technical-problems and all kinds of things from these projects that's really just squeezing them for more they they have in them. I've interviewed Codesmith grads myself and 'talk about a conflict with a non engineer' and people just make stuff up because they didn't work with non-engineers... like that didn't "come from the OSP" it came from practicing TALKING ABOUT the OSP over and over with the alumni and career support.