u/Swami218 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I remember the cohorts filled up quickly for quite a while, then it seemed like a lot of people were on waitlists. I guess it could have been rather sudden, but they should have seen the writing on the wall with what happened to the market and other bootcamps.
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
+1 to waitlists, I check the programs page like once a week (or once a day for the past week haha, I was poking around already because they had zero cohorts in February and something didn't add up)
But anyways, about a year ago they had waitlists and cohorts full months ahead of time. Now they have cohorts open until the week before, and they are admitting people who appear on paper to have less qualified backgrounds (subjective judgement opinion, not a fact) who just REALLY want to go to Codesmith for a long time.
And 100% should have seen the writing on the wall. I know I'm hard on them even when the times are good, but it's because I don't ride ups and downs, I try to evaluate objectively and they should have been using the good times to invest in making everything more robust and better. I said this somewhere but even if my criticisms were hard to hear, listening instead of defending might have been better for them.