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 I agree with a lot of that and why for a number of people 1-1 I recommend Codemsith for their situation. There's a lot of good things for the right people with the right expectations. I don't think they are being open and transparent with candidates though. Having seen a number of info sessions and/or people who go and message me quotes or questions. And I see people in the audience get hyped up by statements that are borderline. Like imagine an alumni said straight up, I have no experience and I got a 120K job, you can do it by following the Codesmith way. Then you look up the LinkedIn and see 19 years of web developer experience listed. Then you look up the LinkedIn of the person who asked the question. Some have gold backgrounds for Codemsith, but some do not, yet they still things along the lines that he speaker and say how their reply gives them hope and they feel so much less anxious now.