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Success stories from bootcamp grads or CS grads recently?

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u/peppiminti wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

There are still success stories but very rare. From what I've heard, recent CodeSmith cohorts only have around 1-3 students getting jobs out of \~20 students.

u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I was highly recommending Codesmith back in the day, and encourage a bunch of people to go there in 2021-2022. Sadly the market is falling apart and not a single person is still on their full time instruction team since then, literally about 20 instructors left and the longest serving one joined at the very end of 2022. And a number more joined since then and left. There are only 2 lead instructors AFAIK right now. Nevermind a number of directors (4 I count) who left and haven't been replaced. Every day I get their LinkedIn posts touting 'you could be next', 'now's the time', and all these conferences their CEO is going off to and speaking at and it's really making me sad. Then there are all these sketchy accounts on Reddit promoting them. Like I caught this account pretending to be a student who was sharing promotional links all over Reddit for CSX with UTM tracking params to trace the click through and effectiveness. Person claims they didn't know how those got there. I did a super deep dive and their story makes no sense, evidence indicates they are a sock puppet. I think they've toned it down a bit, but it's just the most embarrassing and sad siutation that your community has fallen apart so bad you have to repeatedly promote things on Reddit through sketchy means AND simultaneously keep telling the world how amazing Codesmith is. I've been trying to talk to their team about it but we're really struggling to get common ground.