I post criticizing using CIRR as the "gold standard" often :D. But you should trust their reported numbers as reliable.
The issues lie more in 1. the way the data is presented and trying to understand the outcomes for someone like you versus someone with work experience already. 2. they borderline sketchy ways people can be excluded... however these are edge cases and not the bulk of the data. 3. data is too slow -> need more real time data on outcomes
All of that said., the reports trail graduation by 6 months, so the next report will be for H1 2022, which was a GOOD HIRING HALF. H2 2022 -> present has been terrible. Amazon has stopped hiring and Capital One has slowed down hiring for and those accounted for a large chunk of the > $150K salaries you see on there.
We won't know the implications of that until June 2023 at the earliest and you'll be done Codesmith by then! From people i…
1. You want to build (or apply) a framework for problem solving. There are different ones around, we created the "Formation Engineering Method" as one such framework.
2. You want to be extremely comfortable with basic concepts before moving on to harder ones. People jump too fast into LC Mediums to feel like they are making progress. Someone I worked with got a job at Google and did about 150 LC problems focusing on LC Easy the week before, for example.
I agree more with this view than the OP as well. Codesmith has a very heavy emphasis on open source projects but for Codesmith students, I've looked through the code for 10 or so OSPs and these don't qualify as the open source commitments this commenter is mentioning. Codesmith OSPs are of the quality level of any other group bootcamp projects, sometimes better, sometimes worse. Significantly below the standard of true open source software. Look for projects with a lot of usage, lots of documentation (sometimes more than the code itself as it's critical for open source), well thought out processes for reporting bugs and making contributions (not a sentence but a whole process), and look for projects with paid contributors on them (via their companies or because the project is run by a funded company). MUI is a good one with lots of opportunity if you like React.