u/thehorns666 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I am a codesmith grad.. and got a job from that program... It was before the AI boom. The program worked and people got hired. The market is too tough now to have engineers with 3 months of bootcamps experience to get a job. As far as his own policy towards other people.. I don't
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I recommended Codesmith to many people, who thanked me afterwards. I have had a pulse on this for 4 years, and I paused my recommendations in February 2024 (when they scaled back about 50%) and removed it in Fall 2024 (when they didn't fulfill the commitments they promised in Feb).
And I was perfectly timed with exactly the fall of Codesmith.
I was being a damn good industry analyst who called it perfectly.
Instead their leaders blamed me for the decline for simply calling out reality.
It's sad because the students and alumni who are (mostly) very ambitious and incredible people shouldn't feel attacked because Codesmith has had incompetent leadership.