u/Puzzleheaded-Row9244 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Pretty sure any alumni graduating in 2023 and after agree with you anyway. I searched Codesmith in this subreddit and almost all posts in the last year or so are from grads/students who are telling people not to make the mistake of attending.
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
They're definitely some successful alumni who graduated in 2023 the number of people getting really good jobs from my personal view smaller than in the past but it's not zero.
The people who are getting placed, though are not super keen on broadcasting into the world because they know that some other best friends and people who they were in the trenches with during the immersive didn't get placed and I think that's actually holding them back from talking. I also know some people who wouldn't recommend Codesmith at this time who got pretty good jobs eventually, but wow, it was a rough journey. Finally, I know people who are really exaggerating their resumes and they just don't even care or feel bad about it anymore because they have absolutely nothing to lose and they would just leave the industry entirely otherwise.
... I guess shit show of the market pretty much summarizes all this these... People don't really know what to do so they're kind of running in all directions.
At the end of the day, though this is Reddit and like dozens of people are maybe reading these posts I don't know it's like not really many people reading it and the enrollment drop has been so drastic that clearly people are getting information from multiple sources, including recent al so surprise me that many people who graduated in 2023 aren't recommending perspective people go in this market.