This is a lot worse than it looks.
https://twitter.com/whiteHatSnr/status/1330455721897443329/p...
Shame on Whitehatjr and on Byju's. This is outright fraud.
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#12Basically milking FOMO onto Parents, making kids build random apps & giving out visiting cards + auto-generated content.
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#13WhiteHatJr is a scam company and Facebook invested USD 300 million in their parent company, Byjus
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#14In a place as corrupt as India it’s likely they’ll win.
I'd love for them to lose, but unfortunately reality leans in the direction you've indicated.
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#15EdTech in India is a huge mess. My mom was the principal of a high school for about 12 years and has first hand knowledge of the kind of overt corruption companies engage in to get a school contract signed. It is a huge and booming market and everyone wants to cash in through the shortest route possible - cheat and bribe.
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#16Imagine the Ti calculator monopoly but something similar for digital teaching if not kept in check.
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#17They are the biggest scam in India capitalizing on FOMO of Indian parents. They charge heaftily (more than $2000) to teach app development (using Scratch, Firebase etc.). Their staff is poorly paid and just reads off scripts. Their staff doesn't know even the basics of CS (as evidenced in this video: https://youtu.be/1Y21eSn_zSM?t=64 , when the student asks how files are stored in Cloud Storage, she says the files ar…
Interesting. This reminds me of the story of Siraj Raval, a formerly highly influential YouTuber on machine learning and blockchain topics:
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2019/10/16/why-siraj-ravals-...
Some years ago, when I started getting into machine learning, I couldn't tell he is a fraud. Considering that just before he was broadly exposed as a fraudster, he was invited by the European Space Agency (ESA) to give a talk, I was in good company. I think the only reason he got exposed is because he started making stupidly bold claims, attributing high-profile original research to himself. If it weren't for this, he would probably still be accepted by the mainstream because the case a few experts could make against him wouldn't be strong enough.
My point is: it is hard to see what is fraud and what isn't. If the ESA can't tell the difference, how can average parents?
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#18They are the biggest scam in India capitalizing on FOMO of Indian parents. They charge heaftily (more than $2000) to teach app development (using Scratch, Firebase etc.). Their staff is poorly paid and just reads off scripts. Their staff doesn't know even the basics of CS (as evidenced in this video: https://youtu.be/1Y21eSn_zSM?t=64 , when the student asks how files are stored in Cloud Storage, she says the files ar…
Sounds terrible. How are his accounts being taken down?
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#19I feel scared for him. He has been constantly exposing more of this shitty company on reddit (r/india)
WhiteHatJr's ads are complete BS. They advertise that a 9 year old kid (wolf gupta, yes that is apparently his real name) got a job at Google
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#20WhiteHat Jr is one of the worst startups in India, there product is pure crap, employees are equally stressed with outrageous targets.
Unfortunately any dissent is limited to social media as Indian media will peddle whatever the advertisers/government want them to say.