u/president__not_sure wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
i would like to see the results of cohort 1.
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I'm very curious how many people dropped off from start to finish as well.
But those people graduate end of April, which is well past the deadline for the next cohort.
Codesmith measures performance metrics for placements within 360 days of completion, so they likely won't publish any kind of data until April 2026 about how the July 2024 cohort did.
I'm sure if they have some success cases before, they will highlight them on social media, but we need to see the actual data and impact.
Of the people who started, how many get a better job and what kinds of jobs do they get.
I'm sure verbal feedback will be amazing and current students will join all the info sessions saying how amazing the program was, but SHOW ME THE MONEY! 37 weeks full time is a heck of a long time and even if the program is free, you could do other things. Let's say you make $20 a hour and this program is about 1480 hours, that's $30K of lost opportunity cost by attending. So if you LOVED It but got nothing out of it, it cost you $30K, not free.