u/Primary_Initial_3274 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
>Sounds easy, publish data by experience level right? Now because we work with people from non traditional backgrounds, there's a huge difference between someone self taught with 5 years of contracting experience vs someone who worked at Amazon for five years and wants a new job.
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
Yeah I totally get where you are coming from and we can and want to share more.
The hesitation is that people truly do have unique journeys at Formation. They do entirely different things at different paces and it's something noted by many people who go through, and it also makes it hard to review as no one else will have the experience you did again. You can go on leave and there is no expected timing. Some people have really demanding jobs already and need to ramp up and down completely unexpectedly... this is surprisingly common and I don't think I've ever seen a Fellow who hasn't adjusted their involvement because of unexpected things.
So we have to be super careful that people don't get misled by making assumptions about their experience or their self assessment of their skills or how fast they think they can do stuff, and we really want to give more personalized data and estimates if possible.
The breadth of people at Formation is far more than Codesmith. If you are familiar with Codesmith ask their alumni that have gone to Formation how they would describe the breadth of experience and goals amongst Fellows they encountered.
We have a hard time explaining what we are because it's quite a unique platform.
For example, a number of people choose month to month, we have partnerships with Netflix and Waymo to train college interns. It's really just not comparable to any kind of bootcamp and we want to avoid any kind of representation that could be confusing to people about what Formation is, which makes this all even harder haha.