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It's in the third month of the curriculum, after primarily only working with Google Colab in the previous two. Keep in mind that a majority of the students have never seen or touch…

Can agree with you 100% about Unit 3 in the data science track. I know a few of my peers that walked out without even setting up their local development (because they were on windo…

Above minimum, I believe. Last I heard the fellowship pays ~$15/hour

Thanks! Nobody's ever told me that about my writing! My email is open if anyone wants to chat, to anyone that sees this :-)

As a student that experienced the changes you were talking about... Before the TLs were removed, my code was vetted by my TL (and she was a good one, thank goodness), but after the…

As a Data Science student that just recently graduated from the program, it prepares you for a data analyst position, at best.... which essentially means any job where your primary…

I graduated at the end of February and am still job searching. In the meantime I have a part time job and working through the MIT Computer Science OCW

It's worth mentioning the the CEO Austen had a post on here (now deleted) proclaiming to have creating a bot army via stealing people's pictures on Instagram. I would qualify that …

As a student that went through the program, I question if their incentives were aligned. During the middle of my enrollment at the program (Sept 2020), the school suddenly dropped …

Very much blind leading the blind leading the blind from my experience at the school

After Lambda School completely removed code review, grading, attendance, TLs when I was enrolled... I just couldn't see how the incentives were aligned anymore. There was no one lo…

You'd be better taken care of if you got hired by Amazon in a non-tech role and then applied to this program. What Amazon provides to employees who sign up: "Applicants accepted in…

As a former student, I can't recommend Lambda. I am speaking to their quality of curriculum and lack of transparency towards their students. I hope from working with Amazon there'l…

Well, a LOT of students were unhappy about the changes. Truth is not a lot of students post about their experience on social media, and of those that are unhappy with the school da…

The point is that for all posts spanning back to 5+ months ago, the entire comment section is filled with students sharing their story and trying to stop other people from enrollin…

You're absolutely right.

Here are a couple more recent links relevant to Lambda School: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA8obAJa414&t=500s https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/lvi6mz/lamb... ht…

Maybe they can turn it around? Idk. They certainly couldn't improve things quick enough when I was there. The most unfortunate thing is that Lambda is walking away with a tainted r…

Yep. Plenty of controversy surrounding it, and I knew that coming in as a student. The reality is, is that I had a really good experience during the first month of the school (the …

Students all across the board were and are still really upset. Some student posted a poll asking whether or not students liked the changes. Overwhelmingly, students answered NO, bu…

I know that Lambda has now implemented an auto-grader, but it came too late for me. I was in that hole post-changes where Lambda seemed not to know what the hell it was doing, and …

No more attendance was taken, as well, which left the biggest accountability hole. My first student mentor wasn't great, and ended up ghosting me after a week. I was ghosted by my …

The program-wide changes that angered students back at the end of September are still having effect all over social media... I was a student and was affected by the changes. I'll c…