u/swekage wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I'm currently in the program. I'm not a new engineer. I have almost a decade of experience as a SWE and worked at Fortune 500 companies, startups, and my last job was at a FAANG as a frontend lead. I was skeptical too. But from what I can see so far, this is not a scam. They rea
u/michaelnovati replied ·
That sounds reasonable, I've been following along and the program itself seems real yeah.
The thing I'm skeptical of is
1. Austen isn't qualified to evaluate code and I'm pretty skeptical of his tweets, but that doesn't have anything to do with the program itself day to day.
2. I'm SUPER skeptical a company will hire all grads that survive The Guantlet, no questions asked. Like some companies have contractual obligations to run background checks, and I know if I was working at a company and the company hired 50 people without doing behavioral interviews for working style alignment, I would be REALLY concerned internally.
But I think the program seems very effective to identify for, select, and weed out an interesting group of people.
Do you have a sense of how many people are left as it comes ot an end??