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# UPDATE JAN 9, 2024
This is a recent follow up with non-anonymous grads that further perpetuates the observations in the original post.
Codesmith recently posted this video of recent alumni who got jobs: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaeK77HL2Kw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaeK77HL2Kw)
All 3 were asked if their past experience helped them get a job. Without doxing anyone (you can watch the video), these were the response versus LinkedIn
**ENGINEER 1: Senior Software Engineer**
Response: "the company that I'm currently working for there's a lot of overlap in what my previous company was doing", "I understood their business a little bit better um so that aspect really helped me", "but yeah for from a technical standpoint I'd say Codemmith will will get your back"
**LinkedIn: 10 years+ at robotics company, 7+ years as "director of implementation" using the skills: " Python (Programming Language) · C++ · C# · Java"**
**ENGINEER 2: Software Engineer (Ed-Tech)**
Response: "I had literally nothing else cuz I had just spent all my previous professional life teaching um and that was not you know I couldn't find anything particularly relevant about that"
**LinkedIn: Graduated from ivy league undergrad school, and was a teacher (got a job in ed-tech!), Listed OSP as 1 year 3 months, marked as "OS Labs" without explanation this wasn't a job. Listed part time TA job at Codesmith properly as part-time.**
**ENGINEER 3: Senior Software Engineer**
Response: "I'll just like super briefly echo what \[ENGINEER 2\] said before coming from education you kind of you learn how to be a whole human and interact with other humans and so that is so invaluable and uh in the job search and uh yeah and in working with other people so um yeah don't discount that that experience"
**LinkedIn: over 19 years as a "Web Developer, Full Stack Engineer". Director of Operations at a graduate school with coding skills: HTML, CSS, and Open Source CMS (PHP, MySQL).**