u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Yeah +1 to others, it's not super relevant that Will went there, and yes it's true: [source](https://www.coursereport.com/blog/founder-spotlight-will-sentance-of-code-smith)
Hack Reactor was acquired by Galvanize in 2018, and then K-12 acquired Galvanize in 2020. And then K-12 restructured as Stride Learning at then end of 2020.
So whatever experience he had back then it is certainly a little different from the experience now.
The only think that's relevant to some degree is that Codesmith's instruction staff all come from Codesmith alumni who become TA's, get hired full time, get promoted to leads, etc... and they are lacking like real industry experience in the ranks. Their main investor has many startups, is mostly known for film, but did an SAT prep company, and their head of outcomes did a startup as a product-person many years ago and then wrote movies as well. There on and off again co-founder, who is back working on the ML program, has Amazon experience, but I don't think was involved in developing the company much. I think this is why their view of "mid level and senior roles" and what "open source" means are not super alinged with the tech industry.
That said, Hack Reactor hires instructors from the industry to develop content and teach, who are not direct graduates, and both programs have good outcomes, so I'm not sure this argument even matters either in the bootcamp world. It matters much more in the space I work in where all the competitors have FAANG-level industry experience in their ranks mentoring.