u/CoastLongjumping6491 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
That’s what I would guess as well. This is not something anyone would have given a second thought until recently, since as I mentioned CSX generally operates as a community for learning, helping, and sharing resources with others, not explicitly as an admissions funnel. But now
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I would also point out that my team (but not me) does cold outreach (searching LinkedIn and using various tools and sources to find potential fits). Even when we required less experience, as far as I know, we have always trying to target bootcamp GRADS not people earlier in their journey.
If we haven't been able to reach out to every PLACED bootcamp grad from all bootcamps, including all placed Codesmith grads, at this point then we aren't doing a good job in our outreach and connecting with our target market.
We did have a few problems with having to train new recruiters on our team specifically to identify Codesmith OSP projects NOT as "placed bootcamp grads" because there were a number cases of mistakes. This is actually one of the reasons Codesmith even got on my radar to begin with, it was messing with out funnel because a few dozen people were applying and interviewing saying they had 6 to 24 months of work experience and a chunk of those got by our recruiters and larger scale outreach checks... when all the experience was their 3 week OSP project.
Does Codesmith want to build like a wall around all of it's alumni to isolate them from the world? If they do, that sounds like a classic cult/high-control-community tactic... geez.