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.

A good question is to ask why I'm like this. Seek first to understand, then be understood is what Codesmith told their staff, and they should action it. I offered to help Codesmith and some ideas to work with them. Their leaders didn't want to. Alina confirmed to me that Codesmith paid some guy to post on Reddit and I gave her evidence that the same guy lied and tried to get me banned and that the mysterious missing founder of the Codesmith subreddit was involved with this scheme. I offered to apologize publicly for any individual person who felt attacked by my commentary if they publicly apologizing for making shit up about me and sending it out to their community. They declined to apologize. Then I open up LinkedIn and see all kinds of fake made up stories that seem to rewrite history and promote Codesmith. I hear about more and more layoffs even as of a month ago. I hear about legal problems and disputes. I hear about former employees considering breaking NDAs and paying the price because they are so upset with how Codesmith behaves. And I have seen a new placement in a while, like their outcomes are falling off a cliff from where they used to be and Codesmith isn't warning anyone, just lowering the admissions bar even more - which pisses off staff FYI. These aren't things I've heard about any other bootcamp. Other bootcamps are talking about strategies to get placed in a tough market and specific program changes they are making for the evolving market. Codesmith keeps talking about alumni success cases and bull shit about the community and support. They have no actual advice on getting to get a job right now because their grads aren't getting jobs. And I still follow their grads success and the ones that get jobs have such exaggerated resumes you wouldn't believe... and Codesmith talks about these people as if Codesmith's pedagogy was the reason. No... the fact the person lied about their past job is how they got placed. The fact that they said they worked for 2 years on their OSP when they didn't and then Codesmith signed off on that is how they got placed. The fact they effectively fired the supposed independent head of OSLabs and basically wanted her to fake being involved for appearances (she's still on the website and still has an email address) its layers and layers of manipulation. They attacked my integrity and I'm so confident in my integrity I will not rest until everyone sees them for what they are and every single sketchy thing is accounted for and answered for. If so many people didn't support me then I would not be so public about it but I'm not the only one who feels this way.