Launch School H2 2024 grad outcomes. Placement rate within 6 months is lower than 2023 grads (50% versus 75%). Note that the denominator is all people who start, so will do comparisons in the body.

Depends on how much experience. But Meta is strict on YOE requirements because of regulations and such (even though internally they don't care much about YOE). New grad jobs go to interns and aren't accessible anymore. Mid level jobs require 2+ years of YOE. They use to have this rotational engineer program ("pathways") for mid level adjacent jobs for people with nontraditional experience that wasn't quite FAANG-level. It still required 2+ years of experience but it could be any kind of SWE experience. I've seen some people from Codesmith straight lie about their experience to qualify for that program, someone saying he worked at Codesmith as a job, before he even started going to Codesmith as a student. You can potentially get a contractor job there, but those never result in full time employment after and put a hole on your resume. My advice (that I advise a number of people) get a FAANG job adjacant using your experinece: Data Engineer, Business Engineer, Entrerprise Engineer, IT Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Partner Engineer, and then over time try to transition to SWE.