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.

Based on their website as of 6/7/2025 Admin Team (8 people): no one on that list has a technical/engineering background. Instruction & Engineers (15 people): more complex breakdown - Lead Instructor (2 people): full time staff, both of whom graduate Codesmith roughly a year ago and have no real industry experience. One of them "works" for a Codesmith alumni's shell company/startup that Codesmith people use to beef up their resumes. Engineering Mentor (2 people): full time staff, a stepping stone to the Instructor title. These are Fellows who stay on full time - kind of like Full Time Fellows. Faculty Lecturer (1 person): James Laff was the head of curriculum and seems to have left, and this role is kind of like the more junior stepping stone to that role. This person graduate Codesmith end of 2024 and has never worked in industry. Engineering Fellow (5 people): these are hourly TAs who just graduated Codesmith and stay around Prep Program Instructor (4 people): these are part time people that teach the couple week $50 CS Prep/JSB courses and they aren't part of the immersive. Mentors and Contributors (many people): these are hourly/ad-hoc part time people who do like resume reviews, sales calls, code review, etc... they are not full time staff \---------- So of the full time instruction staff - 5 people - none have really worked in industry and all graduated Codesmith recently. And in all of this the founder doesn't teach anything himself, review any work. Some lectures were created 4 years ago without updates and the people teaching them are training in how to PERFORM LIKE THEY UNDERSTAND and many do not even understand the concepts themselves (according to conversations with those people).