u/LongjumpingFan9447 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Yes I really respect u/michaelnovarti but I hope you are all happy with the outcome of your posts.
You know that while CodeSmith bootcamp it is not perfect the admissions is much better and the teaching is at least as good as other places. And the community is amazing.
I know
u/michaelnovatireplied·★ FEATURED
Yeah I push back on people who have crazy conspiracy theories and I only say things that I have observed first hand, or been given evidence of, and I have many, many people of all kinds of relationships to Codesmith share their own things with me.
... the decision isn't always A or B, it can also be "none of the above" and Codesmith IS BETTER than many programs objectively, but it still might not be the right program for YOU and to me that's critical to evaluate.
u/dak78 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
damnn this is an amazing post.
This subreddit is a lighting rod of extreme negativity right now. Every bootcamp, but especially the ones that have had the most organic discussions -- are receiving outsized negativity.
What I'm seeing more often nowadays is people, who didn't g
u/michaelnovatireplied·
I've talked privately to a number of people on all sides of this (the OPs themselves AND the people who claim they are scams) and the truth usually ends up being:
The person's results are real, but they also omitted relavant information that people probably need to know.
For example, someone who had 13 years of developer experience on their resume but claimed in their post that they had no experience and were lucky to get a job.
Or someone who is making $400K at Netflix, but it isn't a SWE role and the person has 8 years of amazing work experience in similar roles, relevant to the actual job title they did get.