u/CodedCoder wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I can not wait until an article comes out about this clown school and all the alumni that are asked to defend the place on Reddit. Just know all of your alumni aren't down with your bullshit even though they still have access to it.
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
Ok the tone is a little bit antagonistic, but I do agree with the opinion stated that not all alumni and staff are super happy with everything going on and there's a significant lack of organization of things internally. A lot of people have access to a lot of things and a lot of those things are completely publicly shared. So I wouldn't be surprised if people do start posting more about their experience even with an NDA because a bunch of things are publicly available that I certainly wouldn't make publicly available. People who have non disparagement clauses might not be able to post anything.
That said. I learned from someone last night that Codesmith actually doesn't have much "code" that employees actually work on. The main codebases are the public website and the CSX website, both of which are like junior web developer level work and not "senior software engineering work". I looked through a couple of instructor resumes and just very bluntly - they are going to need some work, I'm
My understanding is that instructors and employees whose only "software engineering" experience post Codesmith is working on the Codesmith website with a couple of small changes are stressed.
I worry Codesmith is going to blindly try to "help" these people get jobs and it's not going to do much.