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I've actually been thinking about starting a Sales bootcamp aimed at teaching technical founders, or people with no background in sales. Not sure if there would be any interest though.
One of the coolest parts of teaching these classes is how awesome the people are that show up. The engineers that want to learn new things mid career are exactly the kind of people I want to work with and hang out with. I think there's a real opportunity for more classes like this.
[Disclaimer: Shameless self-promotion] We run something called Interview Kickstart: http://Interviewkickstart.com . It's a part-time bootcamp focused on preparing for technical interviews at (so-called) top-tier places i.e. places which interview heavily in DS/Algos and Large Scale Design for their core engineering roles, and also make staggeringly high offers. Think G/F/A/Netflix/Amazon/MS etc. It is intense and als…
As far as getting better as an engineer in some domain-- how does a program like this compare to hacking on and contributing to a FLOSS project in that same domain for a similar total number of hours?
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Just a suggestion for possible improvements... Looking at the sight I really just wanted two questions answered. How much time? How much money? The first took a while to find: Two 4 to 6-hour sessions per week, for 8 weeks. 200+ hours of work. The second looks sketchy: Tuition: Not cheap
Thanks! Will consider. With that comment on pricing, we just want to deter people who think this can be done cheaply.
I've actually been thinking about starting a Sales bootcamp aimed at teaching technical founders, or people with no background in sales. Not sure if there would be any interest though.
That would be VERY USEFUL. Speaking as a tech founder who had to learn and appreciate sales after launch.
Recurse Center: https://www.recurse.com/ . Anecdotally, not so easy to get in.
This looks neat. If I had a 6-month sabbatical from work I'd apply, but unfortunately I don't know when I'll ever have the opportunity to do something like this.
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Yeah i did it last November when the courses were structured to be done as a full-time program. They've restructured to make it compatible with having a full-time job simultaneously. I think they've still had students take all courses concurrently though, even with the new model. Worth sending @oz a note!
Was there any type of discount for taking multiple classes? I looked on the site and didn't see any mention but at $1800 each module it sounds very pricey to take them simultaneously.