u/BayleeBaylee4578 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
This is simply a lie. It took me a few minutes of researching Formation grads, to find one from a recent cohort that had a few months as an intern before Formation, and now has a very minor SWE role at a place called Handshake. Stop lying. REPOSTED AS THIS MOD REPEATEDLY DELETES
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
We have people who have been with us for a long time and our bar used to be any SWE work experience in 2019 to 2022, then was 1+ year 2023 -> and then 2+ years in 2024.
I was replying to a comment about the current state of Formation that someone was criticizing.
There can be edge case people people from a long time ago that place that have less experience and we also have a handful of people we accept now with less than 2+ years of experience.
You're right I shouldn't say "only take". We only market to and and only consider people with 2+ years since 2024 and reject others, and we have exceptions and edge case for one off reasons who come back and make a case or explain their circumstances on a call.
We also have partnerships with Netflix and Waymo where we prepare interns for their corresponding interviews. And those people are not paying $2500 a month, are not paying anything, and are in special adapted program for those people. All of those people might also get jobs at other companies.
I don't see any placement in the Fellowship ever at Handshake or anyone that has interviewed there recently.
I've said this 5 - 6 times from my count in the history, but LinkedIn does not give any kind of picture whatsoever into what Formation does or is and you seem to be getting frustrated that it doesn't make sense without trying to incorporate what I'm saying into the model with good faith.
Your account has 95% of comments automatically removed by Reddit and was flagged for having alt accounts posting the same content - your content is indeed under scrutiny .