5 months post CodeSmith, only 1 person got hired

It's not that at all. They are gaslighting critics of Codesmith hahaha by countering facts with cherry picked numbers and then telling the critics they are wrong. But the students are genuinely rewiring their thinking to believe they are mid level and senior engineers. It takes 12 weeks and lots of tactics: - if you are ever negative you do correction meetings to readjust your mindset to be positive - You have to emoji like every post and an instructor apparently complained they didn't get enough emoji reactions for example. - you are told you have imposter syndrome and the solution is to follow Codesmith's resume advice to fix it and to trust them because you have imposter syndrome and aren't thinking properly about your work so you have to trust Codesmith's way as the "reality" This stuff actually works though! Like people systematically come out thinking this way and when Codesmith had strong outcomes these people fought me to bitter end about how life-changing Codesmith was. Now it all seems like I'm watching a Netflix cult documentary. Someone from the early days is also suggesting that Codesmith's founder copied the curriculum from Hack Reactor (where he went) and his "work experience" was just his capstone project from Hack Reactor framed as a company and are question if he has any real SWE work experience at all. I would watch this documentary, it's a fascinating story - someone with no experience, allegedly stole a competitors curriculum after being a student there, crested a program that rewires you to build self confidence to also portray your lack of experience as mid level experience, and then somehow convinced 4000 people to pay $20K (making $80 MILLION DOLLARS?) AND hundreds of those people actually had life changing experiences in the end! Like this is one heck of a Netflix or HBO documentary to me!