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Re:A Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp by Becoming a Red... by blahblah12334 on Thursday October 09, 2025 @04:32AM (#45525030)
Regardless of Michael's issues with Codesmith, I will say as someone who looked into bootcamps before, Codesmith is infamous for having people misrepresent their job experience to get swe jobs (even getting hired as seniors!). This is also why they used to have some of the highest job salary outcomes. I'm not going to link anything but this can be confirmed by just searching "Codesmith" in Linkedin and seeing how many Codesmith bootcampers are "senior" software engineers on "open source" codesmith "companies"
Re:A Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp by Becoming a Red... by podobo on Thursday October 09, 2025 @11:00AM (#45528655)
Yeah Codesmith is trash and I am seriously wondering if this thread itself is being swarmed by their PR people.
Re:A Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp by Becoming a Red... by Montymio on Thursday October 09, 2025 @02:43PM (#45531494)
or maybe you’re part of formation’s PR. The article lays out the reality.
Re:A Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp by Becoming a Red... by kandel on Thursday October 09, 2025 @02:59PM (#45531669)
Who are you? Your account is 13 hours old. Do you work with one of aggravated parties or are you a concerned bystander?
Re:A Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp by Becoming a Red... by Montymio on Thursday October 09, 2025 @07:29PM (#45534095)
you sound just like michael.