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.

Thanks for sharing. I agree to some extent that showing what others in the industry do would be useful to know in general but I also think the analysis is very clear on how it should be used, and lack of this doesn't cancel out the value. There are two reasons I focused on Codesmith: 1. Codesmith very publicly considers itself in a league of it's own. They claim to be the only non-traditional program to take people from zero to mid-level/senior and compare themselves to "elite grad schools". I therefore hold them to the bar they are presenting for themselves and don't think they should be compared to others. 2. As I said in the disclaimers, I have been following their placements passively for almost two years now and my friends and colleagues in industry (specifically engineers and recruiters) feel that Codesmith grads representation is anecdotally far more exaggerated than the rest. My peers are particularly unhappy about the background checks and letters of reference done to confirm exaggerations which has not been reported elsewhere. I'm very friendly with Launch School and Rithm - other top programs - and we get along great. Sophie has met with and spoken to Launch School grads. We've both met Rithm's founder several times in person. We could get along amicably with Codesmith and support each other and what we do and push for a better ecosystem.