u/MisterSparkle8888 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Tbh, I didn’t hear about formation until much later into my journey. I was sold on codesmith because I knew a few different people who found success prior to 2020. However, I didn’t find that same success and didn’t have the best experience.
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Sorry to hear, yeah one of the reasons I talk about Codesmith so much is that they have a very polarizing brand of people who will fight tooth and nail for Codesmith and people who do not like it at all.
My opinion is the people that don't like it shouldn't have gone in the first place and chose to go because of the super positive promoters talking superficially about how life changing it is, but without going into the nitty gritty of how it all works and realizing it probably isn't the right thing for them. The info sessions tout $120/$130.... $180K salaries, and it gives hope to people who aren't a perfect fit that maybe they'll be one of those people. Maybe you will be but maybe you'll also win the lottery and people need to understand what THEIR OUTCOME might look like, and I talk to a lot of people about this because Codesmith does not help with this.
I highly recommend Codesmith for a number of people, people who are extremely ambitious, have professional success in some kind of professional field (other engineering, accounting, medicine, mech eng, etc...), and people who will do whatever it takes to get a job, and stretch their resume as an 'ends justifies the means' argument. Those people do exceptionally well there and tend to have exceptional outcomes. We'll never know if those people could have had equal or better outcomes elsewhere, but for these people it works.
Anyways, feel free to DM me if you are looking for my opinions on what to do next (disclosure, no intention whatsoever to try to push Formation, I have no idea what the right next steps are for you right now)