Don't go to Codesmith from a Codesmith alumni

I have no doubt that's the vision. But they've published stats and only a tiny number of people at Codesmith didn't have a degree (single digit percentage?) and the majority cummulatively went to top public schools or presitigous private schools. So it's more like a place for Ivy League people who changed their mind and want to quickly go into SWE than Ivy League for everyone. I could talk for hours about this topic, it's super complicated but if that's the vision, I'm sure he speaks about it and it sounds awe inspiring but it's incredibly impractical and I could rip it apart piece by piece. The first step to understanding all this is what unpacking what "gatekeeping" means. It's not a group of privileged people intentionally trying to protect their jobs and culture and exclude outsiders. Second is to unpack these top 1% jobs. The are paid so highly because it's a free market. If everyone had them, they wouldn't pay a lot. It's frickin hard work being a janitor but too many people are willing to do it for low pay. If anyone can do a 12 week bootcamp and get paid $150K there will quickly be more supply and lower salaries and then SWEs will be super lowed paid and the police offers might get paid $200K a year (like in San Francisco). If you want a quick $200K job, become a police officer in San Francisco. Look at all these officers making hundreds of thousands of dollars per yere [https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?a=san-francisco&q=police+officer&y=](https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?a=san-francisco&q=police+officer&y=) DOZENS IN THE $300KS Anwyays, out of time for this comment going to post about it