u/Crazy_Charge6957 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Be that as it may, going through Formation myself I haven’t seen any content in that program that rivals the “Hards Parts” series in depth or educational value.
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
Formation isn't a school and doesn't teach any concepts like that. We are a place to practice problems, get feedback, benchmark, enhance your job hunt and do mock interviews.
We believe there are tens of thousands of hours of excellent materials out there and we try to help you navigate that.
All of our efforts are out towards our product and you can see form our launches blog how much effort that is.
Codesmith doesn't have dynamic scheduling of 500 sessions a week, source thousands of job posts a week and provide personal recommends and network outreach, provide a job tracker tool that helps you prepare for upcoming interviews through personalized practice and interviews automatically, collect and read about a dozen feedback points per person every week, provide a personal algorithmic feed of things to work on, provide a custom built on platform collaborative coding environment supporting a dozen languages and frontend frameworks and drawing pad with AI analysis, built a custom benchmarking frameworks...
We did this in months.
All of our sessions are run by industry mentors and while we provide a lot of guidance, monitoring, facilitate feedback and evaluation, mentors are independent and explain things their own way.
There are pros and cons to our approach, but it's quite unique so it's important to join for the right reasons. Because if you join Formation for excellent lectures it's not the place, we don't offer any form of education.