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.

u/Swami218 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Objective means giving all the details and context. One great example of how you don’t do that is what you just said about Fanzter’s acquisition. One quick Google search tells us that it was acquired by ESPN. ESPN is owned by Disney, so maybe they wrote the check? I don’t know,