u/peppiminti wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
They haven't posted new job updates in the alumni slack for about a month now.
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
There have been placements, but they keep shedding staff so it could be another thing falling through the cracks.
There certainly aren't a lot of placements.
And a couple placements I've seen and really embellished and made up LinkedIns it's almost like an insult or a joke.
One started working at Codesmith as a TA prior to starting Codesmith as a resident.
One claimed their 3 weeks of commits on their OSP were 1 year 8 months of experience and got a job recently.
I flagged both of these cases to them.
Like I believe one person there is trying to fix things but it's just not really fixable.
Every day people hit me up with their personal experiences there and their engineering system seems like a giant scam now and I'm super annoyed.
Like TAs and instructors who migrated libraries from one React library to another in 20 places and then put down 1 year of SWE experience as a senior software engineer.
And Codesmith leaders knew about this according to this source. They knew that the "work" their engineering team members were doing could not pass as real engineering work according to a source, yet they hired instructors on the promise that they would be doing senior engineer level projects.
If the person was able to talk freely without destroying all of their friendships, I think Codesmith would be exposed and shut down in my opinion, these anecdotes seem absolutely absurd to me and absolutely enraging that Codesmith is scamming these alumni into teaching.
Instructors know what I'm talking about and you are not alone in those feelings.