u/Reo212 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Thank you for your detailed reply. I am hearing lot of criticism on this forum about codesmith. There are lot of unemployed grads looking for job. I was about to enroll in codesmith but backed out hearing so many negative things about codesmith. But as you are saying about how
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
This person has been copy pasting this review on allo f the negative Codesmith posts from the past year. It's suspicious behavior.
Codesmith's leadership were saying earlier this week in a public info session call that they had 60 placements in the past month and it doesn't check out with the raw data some people inside Codesmith sent me who were upset that the leaders said this.
I put a pause since then on my recommendation of going there until I can sort it out (and it's not something I'm urgently working on because I'm busy with real things to do)
People are definitely getting placed still but there are some unknowns.
I also have a list of all the recent placements to go through in detail because I spot checked some with a long time industry person who doesn't know what Codesmith was and the person though their LinkedIns were all complete lies (e.g. 8 months of Software Engineer experience that was really just a 3 week long project).
I was going to make a list of all of the placements and how people presented themselves but haven't had the chance.