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I've been calling this out loud and clear and pushing them very hard for being deceptive and manipulative.
Their response: hire people on Upwork to manipulate Reddit and try to dismiss my posts and hire new people to push the brand with a refreshed story.
I'm appalled at their responses to my critical scrutiny.
Their 2023 California numbers showed that 2/3 of "placements" ghosted and were verified by LinkedIn - compare to just 15% the year before - and when I asked them if their contractor could have mistaken misrepresented group projects on LinkedIn at work experience.... no response. Instead they pulled the report and replaced it with an unofficial one using 12 month placement windows instead of 6 months and published these random stats about 102 offers accepted in the past 6 months.
102 offers accepted is a massive decline in offers per day from their previous numbers, $110K is a massive decline from the $137K peak.
3/4 of staff have left from peak.
3/4 of cohorts were shut down.
No humility, no humbleness, just keep saying how amazing things are.
It's surprising when I talk to people how they often just tell me about their own cohort and have some perception that others are doing way better because of this. and in fact that's what all of the people are saying and they're isolated so they can't really communicate with each other.
It's really sad because they built a special community of really cool people that I love working with but they made a critical error...
When times are good are when you have to be most self-critical and instead when they were at their best, their leadership's egos grew and they adopted diety-like status. Their CEO portrays himself as a world leader now....
And meanwhile the entire thing that makes them special crumbled underneath them and the people left to support the leaders instead of facing reality.
King Lear all over again.