Does codesmith seriously get people "senior" level SWE roles with no prior experience?

So there's two aspects to this, civil and criminal. Civil, it would be more about a company suing an employee for lying and causing "damage" to the company. This is pretty rare, people just get fired for lying rather than sued. If Codesmith did something criminally wrong, there might be a case for students to sue Codesmith as well. Criminally, there has to be some kind of bad intentions by individuals to intentionally deceive people for their person gain or in a way that harms others. So you would have to both prove that these actions harmed people or that individuals gained financially from it AND that individuals did this on purpose. If there is no evidence that someone intentionally said something like 'we need to fake these OSPs and figure out how to get people to lie on their resumes' then it would be really hard to prove criminally. Like It's possible the leaders genuinely believe OSPs prepare people to be senior engineers. Given that the outcomes are solid on paper and can be used to justify these beliefs, you would need bulletproof evidence showing bad intent.