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Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's free until you get a job

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Re: Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's free until you get a job

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Post by sattoshi »

austenallred wrote: post #18
nxc18 wrote: post #14

This is very interesting and I like the finance model a lot. I'd be curious to see more details on the syllabus, however. I also have questions about the quality of instruction. There are some big name institutions listed, but that doesn't necessarily indicate quality instruction. The best researchers are often emphatically not the best instructors, and for this venture instructors are much more important. I sincerel…

> The best researchers are often emphatically not the best instructors, and for this venture instructors are much more important. This is very true. Most of our instructors are refugees from an academic world; they really just want to teach, and research for them was a necessary evil. We have a pretty rigorous hiring process (and we're hiring now! careers@lambdaschool.com) >I'd be interested to see more on the syllab…

The complete sylabus would be wonderful. Knowing exactly what one would learn would be very useful.

Re: Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's free until you get a job

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Post by austenallred »

sattoshi wrote: post #61
austenallred wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The best researchers are often emphatically not the best instructors, and for this venture instructors are much more important. This is very true. Most of our instructors are refugees from an academic world; they really just want to teach, and research for them was a necessary evil. We have a pretty rigorous hiring process (and we're hiring now! careers@lambdaschool.com) >I'd be interested to see more on the syllab…

The complete sylabus would be wonderful. Knowing exactly what one would learn would be very useful.

Will work on fleshing that out. Thanks!

Re: Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's free until you get a job

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Post by austenallred »

_jordan wrote: post #56
austenallred wrote: post #3

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> How do you know that your graduates are or aren't making more than 50k? Great question. In addition to our income share agreement, each student submits a form to the IRS that will essentially copy us on their taxes. We have annual reconciliation based on those numbers to see if they match a student's self-reported numbers. > You're essentially giving your students a loan and then having them repay it once they star…

What is a student decides not to pursue software engineering? Do you still take your cut? In my experience, the market is oversaturated with code bootcamp grads; many of them decide to go back to their previous profession.

We only take a percentage if you get a career in software engineering, so we have built that kind of risk into our model.

Re: Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's free until you get a job

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Post by sattoshi »

balls187 wrote: post #46

How will you prevent this from becoming predatory as pressure for improving the bottom line mounts? It feels like a very fine line between altruism and taking advantage of ignorance.

How exactly is this taking advantage of anybody?

Re: Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's free until you get a job

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Post by austenallred »

haskellandchill wrote: post #63

Awesome, I'd love to be running something like this IRL with room and board like another commenter mentioned. Will settle for being a hiring partner :)

Room and board is something we're working on.

Re: Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's free until you get a job

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Post by sant_176 »

austenallred wrote: post #26
sant_176 wrote: post #20

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Could you please tell me whether its applicable in India or any other counties or not?

We're working to figure that out, but first we'll start servicing more of the US applicants we have (we can only teach a tiny, tiny fraction of the willing students at this point).

Sounds good. Awesome work and good luck!

Re: Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's free until you get a job

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Post by austenallred »

artur_makly wrote: post #42

Bravo! This is overdue. Back in the early 80's my dad ( a chess teacher from Odessa ) immigrated to NYC ( with just $150 ). My mom worked 3 jobs to put him through Yeshiva Uni where he learned Cobol, JCL, and Fortran. He ended up getting hired right away by Lehman Bros, and realized he was sitting on a gold-mine. Tons of well-educated immigrants were coming onto the golden-paved shores, with 0 knowledge of computer p…

What a great story. As someone who lived near Odessa for some time, thank you!
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