u/NoOutlandishness00 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
just a heads up, the whole hiring fellows thing is basically a bootcamp norm at every company and not unique to codesmith. Every time this comes up, it makes it seem like codesmith is solely guilty of this when this again is just the industry norm
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
So Codesmith doesn't just hire fellows/TAs, but there is a pipeline - which is extremely disrupted by the recent changes and could very well change
Resident (student) -> fellow 3 month @$50K salary -> lead fellow 3 more months -> mentor (full time paid $80K - $120K depending) -> instructor ($120K to $150K) -> lead instructor ($150K to $180K)
At Codesmith the ENTIRE instruction hierarchy is this except for:
1. One person who was hired as instructor who went to another bootcamp and taught there for two years
2. Two instructors I know of were SWEs in industry and came back to teach. Both of those people are no longer instructors and didn't last long after coming back from industry.
There are a lot of pros and cons to this approach, but just laying out there in this comment for starters, can discuss more.