u/Potatoupe wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Can you post the actual Slack messages? Didnt some Codesmith alumna go to Formation after their Codesmith experience? It sounds more like a recommendation for post-bootcamp interview prep. Unless you consider that to be competition as well.
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I didn't mention that in my response but we do work with a lot of bootcamp grads later in their careers. Not on the record (my best recollection) was that Hack Reaction, Fullstack Academy, and Codesmith where roughly equal in numbers as the original bootcamp people went to.
People regularly recommend (or maybe don't recommend if they didn't like it) Formation to their friends and cohort mates from their bootcamps.
The bootcamp market has been TERRIBLE in the past two years. Codesmith's main competitor Rithm School shut down, and their other competitors like App Academy and Hack Reactor have had major changes.
I'll keep saying it, but I would like to have a call with the Codesmith team to try to understand more where each other is coming from, there's a massive misalignment right now both ways it seems.