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Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month

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Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month

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Post by MarkMc »

hiei wrote: post #87
myroon5 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love how responsive members of this community are

I mean the cofounder himself made the post, this is essentially a targeted post on HN

Good response time nonetheless. Sam Altman recently did an interview where Tyler Cowan asked, "How quickly should someone answer your email to count as quick and decisive?"

Sam's answer: "You know, years ago I wrote a little program to look at this, like how quickly our best founders — the founders that run billion-plus companies — answer my emails versus our bad founders. I don’t remember the exact data, but it was mind-blowingly different. It was a difference of minutes versus days on average response times."

Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month

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Post by mikekchar »

kasey_junk wrote: post #55
zachruss92 wrote: post #54

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I couldn’t agree more. The traditional education system is broken for training software engineers in my opinion. I thankfully dropped out my freshman year, but some of my classmates were literally not capable of using Git (branching & resolving merge conflicts) for their senior capstone projects. Given almost every company uses Git all day every day how is a $250k education helping prepare them for working in the rea…

Under no circumstances would I be happy if my degree program taught me how to use git. I can’t think of a single skill more stupid to learn in university. My degree came a lot cheaper than the modern ones but if I got a similar experience now as then I wouldn’t feel cheated. My undergraduate provided opportunities to program lisps & assembly & write published articles on data structures & I literally went to the loca…

Just because I like telling this story: My university taught me every sorting algorithm known to man (or at least it felt like it at the time). After graduating, I traveled for a bit in the UK and got a job at a travel tour company doing odd jobs. One day the finance department asked me to sort a room full of records. Normally it took them 2 weeks to do the work.

"Right! If there is one thing I know how to do, it's sorting", I though.

Finished the job in half a day (shell sort -- which sadly was the only one I could actually remember...) They thought I was a freaking genius :-) Who says you'll never use this stuff?

Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month

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Post by CapnCrunchie »

jedberg wrote: post #90
notyourday wrote: post #50

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Wowza. People are gambling on tax rates of every level?!

You may be able to deduct the payments as either an education expense or an unreimbursed job expense, but I haven't dug into the tax code to find out for sure. I'll be the LS people know though. :)

Unfortunately you can't deduct the payments. There is some potential legislation around that, but it hasn't been pushed through yet.

Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month

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Post by t0mmycollison »

hiei wrote: post #86

RE: Those interviewing at Lambda (rejected) Luck of the draw with who decides to interview you, I had a guy from the admissions team with zero enthusiasm essentially just reading off of a list of questions. I tried to answer well but giving off good energy from a dead duck is hard. I also was more practical with my answers of wanting to get into coding, jump in profession, curious, experience as a BA, writing technic…

Hey there -- this isn't right, and I'd love to know more about what happened. Do you mind emailing me with more details? I'm tommy@lambdaschool.com

Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month

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Post by MarkMc »

duxup wrote: post #53

It is an interesting system. I did a "full time" 3 month long more "traditional" structured boot camp. I really wish it had been longer and that they.... filtered .... students as it went.

Do you mean the teacher's effectiveness would be improved if slow learners were cut from the class?

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Post by kennbutler »

austenallred wrote: post #32
incompatible wrote: post #31

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Interesting, is the job market in the US so good that even new graduates without work experience can expect to find well-paying jobs? I'm in Australia, where things seem a bit different.

The good ones can with a lot of help. Weak ones or those that don’t know how to navigate a job search well struggle. Our first cohort, for example, hit 100% employment.

All +$50k?

Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month

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Post by jedberg »

So if I'm reading this right, the normal LS program costs 17% of your salary, but this program pays you $2K/mo while you attend and then only charges 10% after? Of is it 10% on top of the 17%?

Either way, good on you guys for trying to do something that helps people that are disadvantaged. You guys should start a charity arm that people can donate to so that more people can get the stipend!

Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month

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Post by RandomBacon »

duxup wrote: post #53

It is an interesting system. I did a "full time" 3 month long more "traditional" structured boot camp. I really wish it had been longer and that they.... filtered .... students as it went.

Are there any bootcamps that filter/drop students?

Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month

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Post by titanomachy »

Austen: does your admissions process give any weight to outside referrals? I have a friend who would be an incredible fit for your program. I'm an engineer at a top company and I'm sure he could reach my level with some guidance, I just don't have time to give him that support myself.
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