COMMENTARY/UPDATE: Codesmith updated their accepted stats today, 168 offers accepted between March and August 2024 VS 53 in March and April alone. Average base salary in those ranges down to $117K from $119K.

Hey, I personally feel like the conflict, if any, would be that people who come here and appreciate my advice, do whatever they do (bootcamp, or CS degree or whatver), then think of Formation in a **few years** and consider it. I tried to pull up data on where people come from and Reddit as a whole is a fairly small source, and we don't have data more granular - but anecdotally a lot come from Leetcode sub where I give Meta interview advice. Now we're only 5 years old, so maybe in a couple years tons of people will come pouring in to Formation because of my involvement in this sub. It's also not a corporate strategy and I'm here personally... my team would prefer if I post more on LinkedIn. But I'm very open to talking about this and I appreciate the challenge. In 2024, we're not talking people without 2+ years of experience. If you don't believe me, try applying and see for yourself. So CS grads are not accepted, and CS grads with a couple of internships are not accepted. Now there are unique edge cases so there will be some people, but it's not fair to evaluate these without diving into each one to understand. We also have a month to month membership that people can sign up for, if they don't qualify in other ways. Kind of like a gym membership with no expectation of any job - just access to the GYM to workout! Anyways, just trying to be clear and transparent and happy to add more. With regards to deleting posts and collapsing comments, it's entirely false, and Reddit proactively permanently suspended Team Codesmith's account since they made those allegations. I'm not sure WHY and if it had to do with that, but Codesmith is playing with fire defaming me in public. They have been treated just like everyone else, and we get 3 to 10 posts a day of a similar nature that are blocked for the same reasons. In addition, there have been a number of pro-Codesmith anonmyous accounts of unstated backgrounds that have been saying similar things for a long time and all of those have been suspended as well recently. This isn't conclusive, but if they are playing games with Reddit it could contribute to the "Crowd Control" algorithms that try to prevent bad actors from getting distribution. The only thing the mods have done (including myself) is manually re-affirm the decisions made by the filters - which is the default action. The case to submit an override, is when someone has a solid track record on REDDIT, but was flagged as new to the sub and their post was queued up. There are moderator logs to show all the actions, and the labels and messages in the UI don't fully indicate what is going on and what happened. Team Codesmith's posts were flagged by more than one flag and you can't see that in the UI. I offered them ideas to try to get out of the hole they are, like commenting and contributing to the community first and getting positive karma on other posts. I'm just me, but another moderator thought one of their posts should have been removed regardless of any of the above concerns because the they felt the content was not appropriate. I'm not friends with the other mods, I don't know them personally. Anyways, I'm trying to be transparent here and again can answer more. I have nothing to hide and full confidence all evidence will back this up.