u/Parky-Park wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
It looks like it was a genuine startup. You can find the repos for the take-home challenges he completed right here lol: [https://github.com/jdvplus/stealth-helpdesk-frontend](https://github.com/jdvplus/stealth-helpdesk-frontend) [https://github.com/jdvplus/stealth-helpdesk-b
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I didn't want to share but I found that too and was like what Stealh Startup is public on GitHub and called "Stealth Startup" haha.
Do you have evidence the person was fired from a real startup?
I think it's reasonable for people to not make it for all kinds of reasons, even if they lied about their background and couldn't make it at the level they were expected.
But I think it's offensive and absurd to portray those situations as successed to be celebrated. I've seen potential students who don't know any better asking a "senior engineer" representing Codesmith at an official event questions about hiring and management, that the person was NOT QUALIFIED to answer but answered anyways with bull shit answers... and the potential students were impressed and appreciative. It does such harm to those people to keep the charade going.
It catches up to you and that's what we're seeing now. Any prospective student that talks to current students is not getting the same kind of wooing that they got in the past. Codesmith 's CEO blamed me publicly for the turning tides... completely ignorant to the problems right in front of him that have nothing to do with me... so sad.
Rant over haha.