Austen, I was wondering if you would consider some online version of Lambda for regions where Lambda isn't there. I don't mean the academic part, but the hiring part. Sort of an evaluation of a student's skills to see if they are on par with those educated by Lambda Faculty.
On the basis of those evaluations/tests/ projects , you can use your network to get those people jobs/ internships.
For eg: I am from India. Currently in a 2nd tier college. Learning ML,NN, Data science and am doing Kaggle currently. But, college CGPA and college name is a major hindrance while getting internships. Am thinking of dropping out after 2nd year, because it's a huge waste of time.
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
The concerning aspect of not knowing how to use git is that you're not working on any projects with other people, which is a fundamental aspect of being a capable and talented software engineer.
Colleges would argue turning you into a software engineer isn't their role, which is fine, but I'd argue that is the goal of the vast majority of CS students, so there's a mismatch.
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#133Austen, I was wondering if you would consider some online version of Lambda for regions where Lambda isn't there. I don't mean the academic part, but the hiring part. Sort of an evaluation of a student's skills to see if they are on par with those educated by Lambda Faculty. On the basis of those evaluations/tests/ projects , you can use your network to get those people jobs/ internships. For eg: I am from India. Cur…
Lambda School is entirely online; we don't have the infrastructure just just yet to go into India, but hopefully in coming months we'll open up.
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#134Hey, 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…
Any news on expanding yet beyond the EU and US? I'm in India and I would absolutely love this program.
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#135RE: 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…
This is standard tech recruiting even outside of Lambda
Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month
#136Hey, 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…
Any news on expanding yet beyond the EU and US? I'm in India and I would absolutely love this program.
We need a few more key hires in order to scale internationally, and hiring is what I work on all day every day. When we do it will be everywhere and fast.
We're single digit months away.
Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month
#137Hey, 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…
Awesome, and kudos for having real skin in the game. Hopefully it will be well executed and rewardful for everyone involved.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
We look mostly at how well they do on our pre course work, how hard they work and how quickly they can climb steep programming learning curves. We’re seeing over 1,000 applications/week. Top of funnel is not our issue.
What are your issues then?
We don't have any "issues" in the sense of things that will kill us immediately, with the possible exception of an out of the blue regulation, so I try to spend time on Capitol Hill from time to time to make sure they know the good we're doing.
But really it's just that things take time. Two years ago we didn't exist. Now we have over 1,000 concurrent students, 60+ full-time employees, and 120+ contract technical mentors. And mostly we think about product and how to make everything better as quickly as we can.
We want to continue improving everything as we 10x the number of students and open up opportunities to more people, all while improving our outcomes (https://lambdaschool.com/outcomes). It's just hard to do.
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#139I'm an experienced developer looking to dabble in some of the tracks you offer. What's the best way to determine if this is a fit for me?
Email admissions@lambdaschool.com.
Admittedly we're mostly built for folks trying to break into tech right now, but will be modularizing and offering different segments in the near future.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 look mostly at how well they do on our pre course work, how hard they work and how quickly they can climb steep programming learning curves. We’re seeing over 1,000 applications/week. Top of funnel is not our issue.
Can I ask (as a 39yr-old who's looked at your school as a route to facilitate a career change) whether you filter by age?