I’m Annie, Codesmith’s Director of Outcomes. AMA!

I can state officially that I am not aware of anyone in the past 12 months who received an offer/acceptance from Formation to join the Fellowship that stated to us they were considering going to Codesmith or Formation at the time and choosing between them. There are people who apply to Formation who we tell to go to Codesmith first and the come to Formation in 1-2 years but we reject them. So maybe they are telling you they are considering Formation but it's actually not an option for them in reality? I am aware of one person in the past year who was advised to go to this path that got a job instead of going to Codesmith and then came to Formation after 6 months or so of that SWE job. I am very much aware of the highest Codesmith offer and that person was not a SWE and had 8 years of very good experience in their field and received a role in the field at that company, so that wouldn't count for CIRR right? The person was going for the same job as my brother and he is not a SWE he's a Data Analyst. It's very clear now where this complete false and made-up narrative is coming from on Reddit that we are competing with you. We are not competing with you right now and we don't plan to anytime soon. If you think you are competing with us then don't portray that the other way around because it's probably false. We are in completely agreement that the highest salary metric doesn't mean much, as I said above, and we actually agree that increase in compensation is a great metric! But I don't think we can even talk if you are portraying Formation and Codesmith as competing options right now.