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.

If you want to redo the deep dive I did, look at court records, secretary of state records, and contact the people involved in the deal. It costs a lot of money to get those records, I spent about $100 doing so because this is a very serious claim that's core to Eric's identity so if it's not true I need irrefutable evidence of what happened because making sure a claim. I'm happy to chat over DM about more about the process I did. People can make official "off the record" comments and statements so there is some things I can't talk about ethically, but I can go over the process I used if you wanted to try to repeat it. The summary of the story is that the company wasn't doing well, Aaron left in 2013 to go back to ESPN (and is now the CTO of Disney's online services) and was down to two engineers in 2014. They got sued in early 2014 for copyright infringement and shortly after those two engineers were hired by Disney and a couple of the "products" that Fanzter made were bought by Disney but they had no interest in Fanzter or Coolspotters (the flagship app that Eric highlights all the time). While Eric might have been involved with the sale, he was removed from Fanzter's website way earlier in 2011 and didn't seem to be really involved in the Company as much after then. I have a bunch of details to fill in here so I wasn't going to present this yet, but you seem to be curious and I'm being transparent that it's lacking some details. I have a day job and this is more of a side thing to figure out, so if you want to join in and help, please do!