Analysis of 52 most recent Codesmith offers LinkedIns and trends on who is getting a job right now and why. Summary: an average of 11.7 months of experience claimed for 3 week long projects (lacking evidence of additional time spent). Majority claimed to have prior SWE-adjacent experience.

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u/FunAbbreviations4280 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

As far as I can tell, the person who'd benefit the most from attending codesmith is someone who has professional experience and a solid network and just needs to learn how to code. What about the people who can already solve a medium LC and spin up a take-home CRUD project but d

u/michaelnovati replied · Dec 6, 2023 ★ FEATURED

I mean the community is amazing, the people are just really well spoken, great and interesting people. There are a lot of reasons to go there! If you are cruising Reddit late at night pondering a career switch and stumble upon Codesmith and see $120K placements and think "sign me up!", definitely slow down and learn about how it works and see if it's what you want first - same goes for any program!! And you'll find a lot of more legit reasons to go there, or not go there, depending on what you want.