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I've been a massive fan of apprenticeships (some are better than others though so you have to watch out). You need 10000 hours to develop the taste needed to be a valuable engineer and a bootcamp gives you 1000. Doing apprenticeships for 2 years can get you almost there. You can rush it and you have to put in the time.

It's not that at all. They are gaslighting critics of Codesmith hahaha by countering facts with cherry picked numbers and then telling the critics they are wrong. But the students are genuinely rewiring their thinking to believe they are mid level and senior engineers. It takes 12 weeks and lots of tactics: - if you are ever negative you do correction meetings to readjust your mindset to be positive - You have to emoji like every post and an instructor apparently complained they didn't get enough emoji reactions for example. - you are told you have imposter syndrome and the solution is to follow Codesmith's resume advice to fix it and to trust them because you have imposter syndrome and aren't thinking properly about your work so you have to trust Codesmith's way as the "reality" This stuff actually works though! Like people systematically come out thinking this way and when Codesmit…

The way this has been framed to me: 1. the top couple of students usually get jobs quickly. they aren't on Reddit and they often aren't very engaged because they are in and out. others wonder why these people did Codesmith in the first place. when I've talked them I get a mix of responses: they were misled to believe Codesmith was more senior and they were way to advanced and we're advising the teachers, they needed some kind of structure and peers because doing it alone was emotionally challenging, and some people just wanted to do projects to refresh their skills and were misled that the codesmith projects were like work experience. I hear people here saying that it wasn't really with it but that they enjoyed the community and didn't think it was a scam or entire waste of money, just probably wouldn't have done it in retrospect. 2. the 2nd tier of students get hired by Codesmith. T…

Apparently someone said there are no support engineers available for March for resume and mock interviews? It's sad if Codesmith worked for you back in the day but it's imploding right now they don't deserve people's money right now. I can't believe one of their leaders texted an alumni who was considering Formation and told them 'it's a waste of money and Codesmith will give them all they need for life' Sure.... 'all they need'.... we have hundreds of mock interview slots available for the next week.

I can give my thoughts knowing a lot of Codesmith grads and what they've been saying recently: 1. Is it worth it for someone who literally has a Computer Science degree? (I tend to struggle a lot with building projects of my own due to demotivation or lack of people that want to build things with me) Placements are hovering somewhere below 50% six months after finishing Codesmith, so you are looking at ANOTHER YEAR before you get a job and maybe 2 more years, even going through Codesmith. Their most recent data shared showed something like 15% of people having CS degrees. I suspect that has increased in the current tough market for CS grads. I also believe people with CS and adjacent degrees have faired better than those without (anecdotal). 1. What did you build, what were teammates like? I used to review a lot of the OSP group projects because people asked me to and they didn't get…