Codesmith Grads - Stop lying on your background checks. Your OSP is not 'employment history'. I've received a number of couple of people having trouble with background checks because they put their project as 'work experience'. STOP.

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

"DO you know how many grads applied to my company with zero experience for a senior role requiring 6 years of FAANG experience." I feel like we're moving away from the topic at hand here lol. What are you trying to say? I thought we were talking about Codesmith vouching for

u/michaelnovati replied · Jun 16, 2025 · edited ★ FEATURED

Yes good point. I'm enraged right now and very upset at them. They just posted on LinkedIn about how a grad went to Codesmith and got a $150K job at Twilio right away.... the grad went to Codesmith in 2018, got a job at Virgin and then Twilio in 2021.... They have a Dog Bot responding to me on Reddit now that is an incompentant use of AI or an idiot pretending to be AI. But I'm losing it and sorry if I'm unprofessional about it now. I am a transparent and authentic person.