u/ItsAlwaysSunnyinNJ wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
You could always find since on linked in and message them
u/michaelnovatireplied·
It's very hard to find Codesmith alumni on LinkedIn. Check out the people listed here and see if you can tell in any way they went to Codesmith: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/kafka-nimbus/people/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kafka-nimbus/people/)
u/ThrowawayVainilla wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
It's actually pretty easy to tell on their profile, even though they don't directly list it.
They all normally have an open source section, as well as a position/co-creator at their OSP. Most of these OSP names have the same style, a technology like GraphQL or Kafka transformed
u/michaelnovatireplied·
Doesn't it feel a bit strange that someone who just wants to get in the industry, work hard, and go to the best bootcamp... has to figure out weird patterns used to obfuscate their experience just to find people who went to the bootcamp. It sounds like the start of a true crime documentary...
u/ThrowawayVainilla wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Sure. But it honestly wasn't that difficult for me to figure out. If someone has an Open Source product as their main software engineering experience or ANY mention of OS-labs... that's a pretty telltale sign of Codesmith.
Unless there's something I'm missing that you're trying
u/michaelnovatireplied·★ FEATURED
Yeah, I'm playing devil's advocate and I agree it's not THAT hard.
Practically speaking, people advertise their projects loud and clear, with their GitHubs and LinkedIns and you can grab all the contributors from os-labs repos and you can spend a few hours identifying all Codesmith alumni.
I did this like a year or two ago now - after noticing patterns in people applying for Formation - and audited 200-ish people and the vast majority had no signs of Codesmith on their profiles, had 6+ months of SWE experience at their "projects", and contributed 2-3 commits over 2-3 weeks to their projects. I dumped all the data somewhere but I have a ton of real work to do but someone who really wants to see how people do could reproduce this easily.