u/BlindElephant42 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Yep, totally agree on your points. Also ties into my comment of overly inflated self-worth. I think about it with other non-SWE engineering roles. If someone interviewed at my current company with 0 years of work experience but they did a 9 month long bootcamp, it would be laugh
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Just a note for others reading, Launch School's Capstone projects are one level better than Codesmith's OSPs and follow a similar idea of building a developer tool.
I love the spirit of the OSP but they went about it all wrong. They responded to my criticism about OSLabs being a fake entity by establishing a charity only recently.
The director of the charity is now 'on leave' and it's my understanding from her that Annie and Phil run the day to day of the projects
Like instead of building a fake charity that's practically run by Codesmith people, put effort into making the OSPs better. Less effort on appearing legit and more effort on being legit.
Launch School is leveling up their projects by having paid mentors work on large open source projects like Firefox and mentoring students to work on those projects without distracting the core contributors (who otherwise don't have the time to mentor junior engineers).