u/starraven wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
The one Formation alumni who responded to me on LinkedIn was talking to me very amicably until I mentioned Formation to him and asked about his experience. He immediately ghosted me at that point. I followed up thinking that he had to have just been busy but nope. Ghosted permane
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
One of the challenging aspects of Formation for us to explain how it works, is that more experience people tend to not broadcast on LinkedIn that they went to Formation and people with less experience tend to put it out there to build a profile. Like if you currently work at a good company at doing Formation to level up, you don't want your company to know necessarily you are doing Formation or that you were doing it for the past six months to leave.
So if you are experience (which most of the people we work with are) then it's harder to find people like you to talk to.
Add in the fact that our entrance bar was slightly lower in the boom times and we took more bootcamps grads about 4-6 months post bootcamp or CS degree, a number who are struggling still in the market, and you end up with a biased sample size on LinkedIn.
I also fully expect Formation to not work for everyone too! We're very far from perfect! But we want to work for most people, be confident in accepting you that we can help you, and be confident you'll see the cost as worth it (which the reasons vary by person). But we're not perfect, and people's goals can change.