u/CodedCoder wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I absolutely 100 percent do not believe you went from never working in the industry, to being a Sr engineer. With absolutely no job or workforce experience, no matter how good you were at algorithms. I know you all try to sell CodeSmith as the place that will teach you for 3 mont
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
The person is indeed a senior swe at a big 2nd/3rd tier company and got the job out of Codesmith.
The company has incredibly high churn because people use it as a feeder to FAANG and it's known to pay higher salaries to try to keep people as a result. It's a great place to go out of a bootcamp but I wouldn't celebrate is an an endgame role unless it happens to be the environment for you. And this person can likely be making $500K at a FAANG company if they took the jump and approached it right.
This person also listed their OSP as 1 year 11 months of work experience, didn't specify it was open source or a project on their profile and their GitHub contributions were 44 commits over 4 weeks. I guess my math is bad but somehow that = 2 years???