>70% of the way there and just needed a pressure cooker to act as a finishing school
Well that's pretty much Launch School Capstone, right? Surprised more aren't offering something similar, must be harder to provide than I assumed
u/michaelnovatireplied·★ FEATURED
Codesmith Immersive and Launch School Capstone have relatively similar formats. Focused on a delivering a big group project and leveraging that as internship-like experience.
Launch School is also working on setting up mini internships and contributions to giant open source projects like Firefox and is leagues ahead of Codesmith right now!
u/sheriffderek wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Some things that stood out:
"Become irreplaceable" - well, it's a tricky time... I'm not sure if knowing how to make a snake game by yourself with JS is enough to plan on that. But we'll see.
"Codesmith is a bootcamp where: Become a mid/senior engineer." I'm not really sure how
u/michaelnovatireplied·★ FEATURED
Yeah they have been working on shifting the narrative. I think they are close but the things you pointed out are crushing deal breakers.
You won't be irreplaceable by doing 5 lectures in AI.... anyone else can do that. I can do that, you can do that and next week we are irreplaceable.
You can't be irreplaceable in 12 weeks for $22K or else anyone else can be irreplaceable in 12 weeks.
I like your idea of a 10 month or longer approach.... you became irreplaceable with time, and you can accelerate a little bit with good direction and advice.
u/Yourza wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Similar formats but apparently a large gulf in outcomes. Do you have an idea of why that might be? Higher incoming technical bar for LS Capstone?
u/michaelnovatireplied·★ FEATURED
Codesmith kind of pushes you out the door and alumni and older alumni kind of use their ambitiousness to hustle into a job. Leaders aren't super involved in individual people's job hunts.
Launch School's Founder personally gets involved in people's job hunts and tries to use his network to hustle you into a job. This is impossible to scale, so keeping Launch School small makes this possible.