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Who should ask you in two weeks? Internationals or Canadians specifically? Huge difference because the latter is for most intents and purposes, 'half American'. The Canadian case is super different from the rest of the outsiders. So some clarity would be nice.
Canadians should in two weeks. EU is live now ( https://lambdaschool.com/eu ), no firm plans elsewhere but working on it.
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I guess “seems too good to be true” is an OK marketing problem for us to have. If you’d like you can attend classes on a trial basis and check it out!
What exactly is your admissions criteria for someone to get accepted to LS? How big of a problem is that for your student-to-job conversion rate when the criteria has to become less stringent to scale?
We’re seeing over 1,000 applications/week. Top of funnel is not our issue.
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Ask me again in about two weeks :)
Any chance there may be also opportunities for Mexicans? The TN visa is the same used for Canadians.
But hopefully soon.
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.
Email me the details and I’ll pass on to the admissions team. austen@lambdaschool.com.
Hey, co-founder of Lambda School here. We launched our online CS academy with no upfront tuition almost two years ago. Now with thousands of students enrolled and hundreds already employed and paying back we wanted to take the next step and open up access to folks who couldn’t afford to pay to survive while attending. Of course, that introduces significant risk on our part, as students still only pay us back if they…
I wonder what you make of the argument that most of what colleges/boot camps/etc are providing is largely just signaling, rather than education?
Obviously there is some education component, but I'm wondering how you think about the nature of the value you are providing.
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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.
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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…
I can (for an aspiring software engineer) - real analysis, differential equations, number theory
Hey, co-founder of Lambda School here. We launched our online CS academy with no upfront tuition almost two years ago. Now with thousands of students enrolled and hundreds already employed and paying back we wanted to take the next step and open up access to folks who couldn’t afford to pay to survive while attending. Of course, that introduces significant risk on our part, as students still only pay us back if they…
I think Lambda school is great, and applaud what you are doing. College needs some.seroous rethinking, so I applaud basically all the ideas we are trying. I wonder what you make of the argument that most of what colleges/boot camps/etc are providing is largely just signaling, rather than education? Obviously there is some education component, but I'm wondering how you think about the nature of the value you are provi…
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
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> That would be a waste of time to teach. It takes maybe a few hours to learn almost everything there is to know You are thinking about this wrong. If it is so easy and quick to teach people how to use git, then why aren't colleges doing it!?!? Learning how to use common software engineer tools is a low effort, high reward situation. All they have to do is spend a day on it, and they have now made their students sign…
> Educational institutions that do not even bother to spend such a small amount of time I can confirm that there are theory-focused professors at a particular state university that don't understand version control or have any experience with it. It's not that they don't see any value in it, they just don't have any experience with it to pass on to students.