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.

Yeah it has contributed to the YOE bar for entry level roles going up and companies dismissing all bootcamp resumes without a deeper look. But it's clearly for these 52 people this is working though and they are choosing their own paths over all of their peers from other programs, and no one is doing anything about it so 🤷‍♂️. There was [a post](https://www.reddit.com/r/codingbootcamp/comments/17m0fis/codesmith_graduate_2023_experiences_job_offer/) where someone said >Students who hustled like crazy, pushed themselves to the limit, and embraced the resume/interview tactics. This is hard to do. It is admittedly pretty shady, but any Career Coach or resume course is gonna have you embellish pretty hard. So I don't think Codesmith's hiring portion is necessarily worse or different than any other field's... but it definitely is ethically uncomfortable if you've never done it before. It just is what it is. And it has FIVE HUNDRED UPVOTES. So clearly many people think this behavior is fine too.