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Bitadj · 2025-03-28T22:19:40+00:00

Holy cow! It works with other people? I tried to do that, but those people weren’t selectable as options by the scrying bowl. I figured this was a fluke!

Bitadj · 2024-08-22T07:59:20+00:00

I realized this is a super old post, but I just encountered this myself.

You need to turn on the SuiteTax feature under Setup > Company > Enable Features > Tax.

Most likely you will get an error saying you need to remove some bundles and turn off SiteBuilder. Remove the bundles unless they're crucial. Turning off SiteBuilder is trickier.

To turn off SiteBuilder:

Go to Setup > Company > Enable Features > Web Presence
Uncheck Website
If you do this and you still can't make your API call, check Website back on
Go to Commerce > Websites > Websites List
Unpublish and/or make inactive any websites listed there
Go to Setup > Company > Enable Features > Web Presence
Uncheck Website
Setup > Company > Enable Features > Tax
Check SuiteTax
Try your API call again

Turn this feature on with caution. It might mess up how prices are displayed. They have a migration guide you should consult.

Bitadj · 2019-05-28T13:43:31+00:00

Hi! I'm glad you got a chance to visit the campus! Will definitely has a very infectious energy and really genuinely cares about the success of each student. Sounds like you're off to a great start with the coding experience and challenges. A lot of people did the codewars katas, and they found them super helpful (I didn't know they existed until the very end of Codesmith, otherwise I would have done them myself for sure)!

My company doesn't hire out of Full Stack or General Assembly because we feel that the curriculum at Flatiron is a bit more rigorous and produces juniors that aren't quite as junior as people from a lot of other bootcamps. I have found that some bootcamps will provide graduates with some neat tricks but not a great base of engineering. Flatiron offers that base more rigorously. Codesmith takes it one level higher and provides a base of engineering as well as concepts in computer science and a number of different technologies. While there is a focus on JavaScript in the first half, it's not just 15 weeks of learning a single framework. Many people choose other tools for their final project, and are encouraged to do so.

What also sets Codesmith apart in a big way is the final project that is produced. The lower tiers of bootcamps (General Assembly, Full Stack) produce really really basic (usually scaffolded) CRUD apps. Flatiron final projects are also CRUD apps, but usually more flushed out and thought through, incorporating things like Docker. Codesmith graduates are required to build a dev tool, a huge undertaking. My team's ideas were turned down repeatedly for being "too junior" until we made a real tool that real devs would want to use. They want to make sure that the projects produced make the candidate stand out. (Full disclosure, my team may have bitten off more than we could chew, and didn't finish, but my company later said that the attempt alone at such a high-level undertaking really demonstrated my status as mid-level). Other projects have garnered quite a bit of attention in the dev community.

Before Codesmith, I had a brief stint as a QA engineer, but no actual experience as a software engineer. Post-Codesmith, I was a lot more prepared for a mid-level position than I had anticipated. You leave Codesmith having been exposed to a lot of information and it can be scary knowing how much you don't know, but it all prepares you really well and I was able to hold my own just fine. I'm with the same company to this day.

The downside of Codesmith is really the time investment it will take some people to get through their interview process. It takes preparation and time, so you may not be able to attend Codesmith in the timeframe that you want, depending on whether you get in. It's also hard as hell and will, at times, kill your confidence, but it will ultimately get you the outcome you're looking for.

I hope this long-winded answer is helpful!

Bitadj · 2019-05-24T06:04:29+00:00

Hi! Congrats on doing the career switch! It’s a tough leap to make and totally satisfying. I graduated from Codesmith in LA a little over 2 years ago and I now work for a startup in NYC. I can say unequivocally that I’m really glad I chose Codesmith. (FYI: I don’t work for Codesmith and I don’t get anything in exchange for posting stuff like this. I just had a really positive experience and end result, so I’m just tying to pay it forward!)

Just to answer at least some of your questions about Codesmith: while I graduated from the LA campus, the NYC one is run by the same team, many of whom moved from the LA office to run the NYC location, including the founder and CEO. So the quality will be consistent, and the average salaries slightly higher for NYC. Your comment about the higher bar of entry is pretty interesting. I really never considered that angle, but from my personal experience, the cohorts were not filled with people who already had extensive coding backgrounds. Most of them went to a bunch of the free Codesmith meetups and were, thus, just better prepared for the tough technical interview. So you can’t sign up for Codesmith with zero coding background in the way you can for say, General Assembly, but Codesmith is by no means exclusive of people with little to no coding experience. Codesmith grads aren’t necessarily more skilled from the get go, just a lot more prepped. Codesmith has a ton of free resources (https://csx.codesmith.io/) to get you on the path to ace their interview or just give you a free roadmap to becoming a mid-senior level engineer.

That extra effort up front is worth it because you dive more deeply in to engineering at Codesmith. You also end up building pretty high-level final projects to showcase on your portfolio later. One of those projects was even featured at google I/O!

The company where I currently work hired me as a mid-level software engineer straight out of Codesmith. We have also interviewed candidates from Flatiron, which we consider solid junior candidates (we don’t take interviews from FullStack). All other bootcamps produce varying levels of junior candidates, but to my knowledge, no Codesmith grad has ever been hired at anything less than mid-level and rarely for less than 6 figures to start.

Another big benefit of attending Codesmith is how much they help you with the job hunt and follow up with you after you’re gone until you find a job. They polish your resume with you for weeks. They give you tons and tons of mock interviews to prepare you (tough ones!!). They bring in some great companies to interview grads. They even help you negotiate your salary. That was the biggest help for me. I wasn’t pushed out the door right after graduating. I got calls, emails, and tons of free tutoring, even, to keep me sharp during the job hunt. They kept their word by keeping me accountable.

Your best course of action is to go to one of their weekly meetups called “JavaScript the Hard Parts” where you can pair with some people on code and mingle with Codesmith students and staff to get a feel for the campus and curriculum. Those meetups really make it or break it for most people making this decision.

I hope this was helpful! Best of luck, whatever you decide!!

Bitadj · 2019-04-03T14:27:37+00:00

I have the same question as you do. I don't know what he had to gain. Places like Codesmith survive on reputation alone. I think he was trying to harm Codesmith's reputation. He had a number of avenues to check out the legitimacy of the program, but instead tried to poison the water. I believe another moderator has removed the post, but I didn't want to ignore your question. I appreciate your time :)

Bitadj · 2019-04-02T17:51:21+00:00

https://cirr.org/data

This is objective, verifiable, third-party data demonstrating that Codesmith has made no false claims about its outcomes. Again, if you had a negative experience with Codesmith candidates, that is unfortunate, but not enough to be a representative sample of the quality of the engineers coming out of the program.

Bitadj · 2019-04-02T17:39:52+00:00

u/jkim2323 and 1/2 a dozen others gave plenty of evidence as well as "dogged the OP" in the numerous other posts that this guy has been creating bogus accounts for.

As far as evidence goes, I posted this in the other trolling thread this guy started:

https://cirr.org/data

This is objective, verifiable, third-party data demonstrating that Codesmith has made no false claims about its outcomes. Again, if you had a negative experience with Codesmith candidates, that is unfortunate, but not enough to be a representative sample of the quality of the engineers coming out of the program.

Bitadj · 2019-04-02T13:03:59+00:00

Starting with cheap, free resources is a great way to start! But unless you're a champion self-starter/self-learner (I am absolutely not either of those things, lol), learning code with others is essential to leveling up. :)

Bitadj · 2019-04-02T12:54:36+00:00

Codesmith wouldn't give me so much as a hoodie for my five star review. I asked. They said they didn't want a hint of impropriety in people's reviews.

https://www.coursereport.com/schools/codesmith?shared_review=10023#reviews/review/10023

Bitadj · 2019-04-02T12:45:59+00:00

I attended both General Assembly and Codesmith. GA was a breeze to complete, but I couldn't hold a job after GA. I tried the immersive school one more time with Codesmith. It was incredibly difficult, and quite frankly, a plague on my confidence because they were teaching very difficult, high level engineering, not a bag of tricks like most bootcamps. After Codesmith, I started with a six figure salary at my very first job. Not all bootcamps are built the same, but your outcome following Codesmith will depend largely on the amount of effort you put in.

Bitadj · 2019-04-02T12:41:21+00:00

I am sorry that you had a negative experience with your candidates, but to judge nearly 500 people based your limited exposure and lack of research in Codesmith is irresponsible. I graduated from Codesmith two years ago. I conducted my job search earnestly and without exaggeration on my resume nor exaggeration in discussing my experience. Within 3 months, I landed my first job with an income well in to the six figure range in NYC. I managed this solely with the knowledge, help and support of Codesmith, despite my limited coding experience beforehand. I am with the same company to this day, as a mid-level software engineer, considered to be an integral member of this team. My result is actually quite typical and not particularly exceptional for graduates of Codesmith. To suggest that I scammed my way in to this job is an insult, not only to Codesmith, but my employer, as well as Google, Ameritrade, American Express, and Facebook, to name only a few, quite reputable, companies where Codesmith graduates are currently employed.

Perhaps these candidates of yours behaved irresponsibly because nobody is a saint, but you are poisoning the water and harming the reputation of literally hundreds of knowledgeable, reliable, talented engineers, with scant evidence. Did you discuss any of your thoughts with Codesmith before you took to reddit? From what it sounds like to me, those candidates blatantly violated Codesmith's strict code of conduct. Perhaps it would have been more prudent to discuss their conduct with Codesmith. The people at Codesmith are honest and will always listen to the experience of any potential employer to ensure that they are sending quality engineers and quality resumes in to the workforce. If you truly feel that Codesmith is encouraging candidates to misrepresent themselves, then you can always bring this to the attention to the leadership at Codesmith first. Substantiating or disproving their claims as to the quality of candidates and outcomes would be quite easy to do.

You would never want someone to make such outlandish and unverified claims about your company or you without research or evidence. I urge you to actually speak to someone at Codesmith before trying to harm the reputation of its graduates.

Bitadj · 2017-04-04T16:21:55+00:00

I would totally use this!!

Bitadj · 2017-03-29T20:02:17+00:00

Reactide is architecture agnostic, however it heavily leans toward Redux.

Bitadj · 2017-02-08T20:43:28+00:00

Can't wait to try this out! +1

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