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/BeneficialBass7700 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

A similar style of exaggeration of experience occurs at other programs too and I'm pretty put off by it. Projects being listed under "Experience" on LinkedIn. People writing in their roles on those projects as "founder", "creator", "full time", "self employed", etc. The duration

u/michaelnovati replied · Dec 6, 2023 ★ FEATURED

Yeah I see to varying degrees as well in other programs and it's most pronounced in Codesmith but I see all kinds of things with non traditional engineers and am very open minded 1-1 to helping people find their path. The reason to call it out is because Codesmith is the only one claiming over and over that it produces "mid level and senior engineers" and signs letters of reference for their open source projects via their "sister charity" OSLabs to back up this open source work for background checks.