Yeah it's really a good option if you live in NYC and meet the stringent criteria.
You are required to have little to no programming experience, and Codesmith claims that CSX's free curriculum prepares people to be junior engineers.
So presumably to qualify you can't even have don't CSX and have to be REALLY beginner.
I'm curious how the people will place and what kinds of jobs they'll get, the info says people are targeting $65K jobs which is lower than Codesmith's median Immersive ENTRANCE STUDENT HAS!!
The other risk is the time - 8 hours days 9 to 5 for 6 months is a VERY long time. People can't work day jobs and have to work nights and weekends, and that's not easy.
But all of this aside, if you meet the requirements and this works for you, this is a great option FOR FREE!!! compared to a lot of other options you have.
I think you mean this link: [https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/tech-layoffs-2023-list/](https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/tech-layoffs-2023-list/)
But yeah a lot of layoffs aren't SWEs, but there has been an increase in SWE layoffs in 2023 as well.
I was at Will Sentance's talk yesterday about the market in 2024 and I strongly disagree with the narrative that SWE jobs are changing. His premise was that Non-tech companies are hiring laidoff FAANG engineers to bring the same engineering bar to the non-tech companies, resulting in a ton of SWE jobs moving to traditionally non-tech companies.
Just not seeing that whatsoever. I'm seeing CODESMITH GRADS go to non-tech companies because they can't get hired at top tier companies in this market (because of the market, not because of Codesmith).
I'm seeing tech companies hiring very reasonably right now in mid level, senior and higher roles a…
If your current job is not in programming and you want a part time bootcamp, Codesmith is the only top one that has part time. Launch School Core is self paced and part time but the immersive capstone is not.
If you are already an engineer, look at Pathrise, Formation (disclosure: co-founder), Interview Kickstart for levelng up your career.