u/Swami218 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Everyone overstates on their resumes, so it’s a very big deal to think about the degree. Going to community college and claiming you went to Harvard is way different than saying you were at a job for a year instead of 6 months. And you just don’t care about accessing people’s p
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
I've so far appreciated your tone and would like to continue a normal discussion.
\- I have active conversations with dozens of prospective, current, former residents, staff, and former staff, it's not 3. I take the feedback to maybe back off a bit, things have definitely snowballed behind the scenes because they allegedly had layoffs of 18% of the staff and a lot of people were thrown off recently by the leadership response and feeling like every week something new is happening, lack of claritiy, and a lack of stability. I had a number of intense conversations that have continued and I think I that might be rubbing off on my tone as I keep everything there strictly confidential. I apologize and that's not how I intend to come across and hear that feedback.
\- If it means anything I circulated drafts with a number of people, some didn't respond, some demanded I post, some gave feedback and i was trying to make sure that the analysis was perceived as accurate by a range of people and if people would be upset by it and everyone who replied thought it was good information to post.
\- Anecdotally means every colleague I've show an example standard Codesmith grad resume and asked how many years of work experience you think they have and their response is not positive. We had to train our staff to identify Codesmith resumes because they were being miscategorized. I'm very bias because these are all tech industry people, but if you have job try repeating that your co-workers and let me know how it goes and if it's the same or not.
\- It's hard for me to be around here publicly too. I get a lot of weird messages, comments too but I think it's important to stand for thoughtful and reasonable discourse - even when we disagree. If I learned anything from Facebook, it's how "fake news" spreads and how bad that can be, and I do not want that to happen, maybe overly so.
\- "we" is Sophie and me, we are married and co-founders, and we meet a lot of people together because I have major social anxiety.
\- Finally, I remind all that I often recommend people go to Codesmith, and hopefully one of like two dozen people in the past few months will see this and back me up. **My primary goal day to day is to help people find good programs for them and be successful.** I ask anyone I've talked to in 1-1 convos about those goals who feels otherwise to call me out.