u/tenchuchoy wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Very very similar progression to you. I have a BS in human biology and worked in cancer research before jumping to SWE. 2019 81.5k Senior Research Associate - Attended a coding bootcamp part time 2020 95k Software Engineer - Pivoted to SWE 2021 100k Software Engineer 2022 125k S
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
A couple of Codesmith alumni are constantly on my case and claiming that I'm trying to put down Codesmith and get people to go to Formation instead. Now I don't really want to talk about Formation but I'm going to try to use this as an example of my constant points about this and I hope this doesn't seem like an advertisement.
(Apologies to the commenter that I used this comment as an example)
But this trajectory is not that uncommon and in fact it can be improved beyond this for those that want to prioritize work and want to work at big tech, and that's what FORMATION does. We help at that 2021/2022 mark in this trajectory to get to the E4 mid-level $300K job at top tier tech companies. We are NOT designed to help with the 2020 first job like Codesmith does.
Now not everyone wants to do that, but for people that do, you pay around $10K to Formation to hopefully make that 2023 jump to $200K, or that 2023 jump a jump to $300K, and more importantly, for those jumps to be in really IMPACTFUL and REWARDING roles.
And that is a very reasonable service for us to offer for a reasonable price if you are someone who wants to commit to that kind of jump.
Anyways sorry if this seems out of nowhere, I hope those Codesmith people read this and it helps explain what I do and where I'm coming from and that I'm not trying to steal Codesmith students.