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CodeSmith is still down lol

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u/AdTypical3295 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Soooo you have nothing to do with this situation, but you made a fake account and this is your first comment? I have a list of people that worked for a particular company - all of them came from Codesmith. This company actively does lay off people because of performance. The co

u/michaelnovati replied · DELETED · archived copy ★ FEATURED
Oh so it's Meta then. Yeah Meta doesn't take bullshit, and maybe that's why I'm equally firm about calling out bullshit. Meta is particularly sensitive about levelling and people who are mis levelled are generally laid off instead of adjusted or supported. Also most of the people were contractors via 3rd party and those are throwaway at Meta and not a path to full time work. I wrote a letter to Codesmith about this because one student lied (he apparently APPARENTLY STARTED WORKING AT CODESMITH BEFORE HE EVEN WENT TO CODESMITH on his LinkedIn) and I suspected this was to meet the YOE requirement at Meta. Codesmith defended it and wrote a blog about him.