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, if comfortable to you mind sharing when you graduated (or approximately). A year ago or two so I would here this kind of thing more often, and I interviewed a number of Codesmith grads that were very uncomfortable with how they presented their projects and we spent the interview more therapy-like about why they were doing this and trying to explain they didn't have to do it that way. Someone said a mock interviewer at Codesmith told them their problem was practicing their buzzwords and their first response when I told them I wanted to pause the interview to chat about something, was 'sorry, my buzzwords are not up to par yet'. Needless to say, these very unique situations over the years absolutely brought Codesmith onto my radar, and aren't representative of all cases but happened two or three times. I was interviewing people that needed extra support so presumably weren't the people getting jobs yet. I haven't interviewed grads since they so I'm curious if it's the same now.