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.

Hi again, I can't tell you what to do and my advice is general specific to certain companies or types of companies. If you don't have any degree, and no experience, then you need to invest in growing your skills, not focusing on how to optimally fake your resume. For example: 1. Do REAL open source, not fake open source projects for your resume, but spend a year working on a large open source project 2. Turn a project into a real company and learn how to run a company RE: Dates, 2023 - present can be fine if you actually did stuff the entire time and if your intentions are good - that you are trying to represent the work you did/are doing. If you've only done a 3 week project - why are you more qualified than the ten thousand other bootcamp grads with 3 week projects. If you think you are just better than everyone else then you might justify lying to get your chance and prove that you are. If you aren't better than anyone else, then lying isn't going to work.