Hack Reactor 2025?

It's important to note that Hack Reactor and Tech Elevator and Galvanize are brands that consolidate all under Stride Learning. And this has happened over the past two years so it's really hard to judge anything about the past. My understanding is that enrollment is not good at all of them and that all of them are fairly low priority for Stride. Codesmith is not a viable option right now. It's down to like 4 core staff members and then can't even consistently spell their founders name right in blogs and marketing anymore. It's turned into a joke. Launch School has maintained its team and quality but even they are cutting back a bit in 2026 cohorts and their most recent placements have been lower than historical highs. But of all the options Launch School is the only one I consider viable right now. My opinion is you are making a financially irresponsible decision paying $22,500 for Codesmith right now. It's embarrassing they even raised their prices this year but someone has to pay for their founder to go to conferences and create Frontend Masters sessions so he can build his personal brand name while not doing anything to help the students or grads themselves. A former employee said that 90% of the frontend materials and coding examples were pulled directly from a popular book. All of the flying around the country and what to show for it?

Codesmith asks people when they started job hunting and I wouldn't be surprised if they change thier metric to "12 months from starting your job hunt" instead of "12 months from graduating" If your numbers suck change the goal posts! Until it's such a joke your alumni turn on you. Word of mouth is number 1 source of people and no one will recommend a program that changes goal posts to trick the public.

There's no way they can run profitably with 2 people. If that's corect, shutdown would be imminent.

I checked this out a bit. So from this point forward they are having just one cohort live at a time, every 4 months or so. So if they content is static and they have just one 9 to 5 instructor then this can very much break even with like 5 people people, but it's definitely not rolling in the dough. I suspect if it breaks even and all the backoffice is common then Galvanize wouldn't shut it down in case things took off again.