u/Asleep-Telephone4844 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
i graduated codesmith in february and got placed in what i consider a mid level position within 3 months (i worked my ASS off during the job search doing interview prep as well as supplemental studying) i was really proud because i was part of the first wave of grads in my cohort
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
The biggest misconception that Codesmith teaches is that mid level and senior are based on 'how ambiguous and novel a problem you can solve on your own' and that's just like entirely made up by Codesmith leaders. Will keeps referring to some LinkedIn post from a Facebook engineer about this as the justification and it's just not true. I'm a former Facebook employee who was deeply involved in hiring, performance, and leveling and I'm telling you it's not true. There are dozens of "traits" senior engineers have that include being able to solve larger scope problems, but that's not the defining trait of a senior engineer.