u/No_Bottle7859 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
One of them was Amazon. The other was I think an energy company, i don't remember the third but neither was capital one. I think your assumptions are a bit off. Some people are actually just that good. There were basically 5ish people that learned every lesson immediately and wer
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
I 100% assure you that no one got an SDEIII senior role at Amazon out of Codesmith with zero work experience.
SDEI - L4 is entry level there, SDEII - L5 is mid level. I know 2-3 people from Codesmith that got L5 jobs (and I think at least 2 are still there) and those are extreme edge cases out of 4000 people.
These aren't case you put on the website as a core feature of Codesmith.
The fact you call their Leadership Principles questions "bullshit questions" shows me how messed up and broken Codesmith is... taking ambitious people and making them feel like the job market is a "game" to get a high score on.
They don't set people up for good careers and with good long term mindsets. It's all a game where the ends justify the means.
You completely dodged my rambling about how people lie on their resumes to get jobs and it's a fact from my research. It's the elephant in the room. Amazing reviews, amazing blog posts of people with no experience whose lives were changed.
All they did was sell their integrity.