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.

Those people have a really hard time, but they often do eventually get jobs by some way that seems to be unique for each one, or they give up and end up in the 20% of I graduated or unplaced people. Like Codesmith is just 13 weeks and you can do a heck of a lot in the 6 months to 12 months afterwards that your job hunting to keep developing and growing, heck, you could start your own company! Codesmith does not really support these people though to be very blunt and I talk to a number of them or work with them. But those who don't give up eventually get jobs. It's definitely a let down for some because they expected a six-figure job and they are definitely some of the more unhappy people and maybe I'm biased because I talked to a number of these people but yeah don't know what else to say, very case by case. But it's one of the motivations for calling this out so often, many are misled here on Reddit because of success posts lacking context.