< 20% of my Codesmith cohort is employed after 6 months.

Yeah there's two sides to every coin. I try to present a balanced view but it's notable to me how polarizing Codesmith is compared to other programs. Like people who feel this negatively towards BloomTech even don't talk about the 'behavioral techniques' that they observe at Codesmith. I'm making this vague to not out the person but someone related to a Codesmith student who overheard their Zoom calls while working from home, was so concerned about this they contacted me. The person was trained in psychology and said they observed concerning techniques being used. I'm not a psychologist, I don't know who this person is in real life, could all be made up, but they did convince me at that they overheard the sessions and lectures at least. And I really have never had anything like this from other programs. It's an unsolved problem I asked a lot of people on the inside about, because I genuinely want to know more about where this comes from. Like are these techniques consciously taught to people or just extremely effective teaching mechanisms that the leaders discovered and use with good intention? I've heard arguments on both sides and don't have any actual evidence either way.