u/CI-AI wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Hey- let’s take a deep breath. Idk if you’re a student or what’s going on but let’s talk about a few things here. 1. I was scared when Codesmith went remote back in 2020. I cried in my car in a parking lot in Venice because I wasn’t sure what was going to happen. It was a scary
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
This is all stuff I agree with too, like things change, the instruction quality will hopefully remain the same.
My personal concern is that this tone is one that Codesmith leaders have had during all the market downturns, and keeping instruction the same old same old isn't working - and it might just be impossible for people with 0 SWE experience to get jobs right now out of a bootcamp.
I was actually more optimistic about them finally making changes to the process, and I'm more nervous about THOSE CHANGES being executed flawlessly and working as expected. To me the risk is that those things may or may not materialize and have impact because they are brand new and since we don't know it just increases the risk in joining. Risk here is not a bad thing! It's risk in the technical definition - higher variance of possible outcomes/results.