u/Able_Awareness8973 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
6 months post Codesmith, 33 graduates and zero got a job.
u/michaelnovati replied · DELETED · archived copy ★ FEATURED
33 is a pretty big cohort too for 2024. If this is true, I really wish people would do their fricken research and stop believing their bullshit marketing and leader.
I used to have way more pros and cons about Codesmith and things have degraded to much over 2024 starting when they laid off everyone and promised amazing changes that never happened.
You can follow my history. I'm pissed off now but back then I very rationally paused my endorsement of Codesmith in February when those layoffs happened and then a few months later when things continued to decline I actively recommended not going there.
Now the leader is writing a book and barely involved, grads are less and less prepared and alumni complain to me more and more about grads who are faking their resumes but not accompanying if with the grit and hustle needed to fake it til you make it.
Codesmith CEO: here's a thought experiment. if all of the instructors departed, would you be extremely motivated to teach all of the students yourself again and spend all of your time in the classroom? Would that make you feel more excited to go to work every day than anything else? if the answer is no, then you should step down and leave. If the answer is yes, you should actually consider doing that. You have been living too high in the sky and you forgot what it's like on the ground and things are really crumbling. Talk to random new alumni yourself, not just older ones who love you. Don't ask the remaining sycophantic staff how things are because you aren't getting the full story.
The typical alumni now are nowhere near prepared for a job and have a fake looking resume that they don't even believe in anymore and the people at Codesmith they talk to are reading from a script you wrote like 3 years ago.... it's really bad in my opinion. Do you have any way to objectively evaluate graduate quality? Do you actually read all their OSP code and go through all of the code reviews and see the massive decline I see? Like open your eyes!