Codesmith marketing campaign: "you’re not late to tech". Unfortunately you likely are, and this kind of thing is tone deaf and misleading. Instead of making changes in their program structure they are marketing a 10 year old program structure as if it still works and please don't fall for it.

Both. They had a number of program cut backs that resulted in people being laid off formally with severance. But after several rounds of layoffs and when no one shows up to your info sessions that used to have 20 people a week showing up, the remaining staff get the hint and a number of people have also voluntarily departed since then. Even if the remaining staff, my knowledge is that most are open to work. I don't mean this offensively at all but there isn't any engineering talent left. The instructors seem like fantastic communicators and eventually I expect to be superstars but they are sooooo early in their journeys the reality is they are not remotely there yet. And the pressure of being sold to the public as a super expert is a lot. I commented on this elsewhere on here but I just don't understand why their founder - who is respected as a great lecturer - doesn't just teach things himself. Like I understand wanting to scale the business but with its massive decline, this is survival mode not scale mode, he's just giving up and maybe hasn't admitted it to himself.