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Re: Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year

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Post by michaelcampbell » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 1:28 PM UTC

thelastwave wrote: post #287

michaelcampbell wrote: post #194

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> praise how insanely ambitious the founder was If this isn't a warning sign of a spectacular failure, I don't know what is. Not to mention praising it, after all the ink spilled on "rockstar" "ninja" types and how bad they are, yet they still get kudos and praise. If you ever have a manager that espouses the "we don't want the heroic cowboy type here", run, because that's EXACTLY what they want.

> a manager that espouses the "we don't want", that's EXACTLY what they want. How does that work? Sincere question.

IME often they're over-compensating or projecting for a thing they know they want people to hear that they don't want to admit to.

It's "correct" to say "work-life balance" and "no heroes", but it doesn't generally NEED to be said in any normal circumstance; that they do say it is often because they do want the opposite of those things so they feel the need to point it out.

To me it's a form of the same thing that name-callers have when they call their adversaries names and you realize the charge they're levying against others is exactly what they themselves are/are doing; because they know they have whatever bad quality it's on their mind.

Re: Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year

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Post by bsradcliffe » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 3:55 PM UTC

austenallred wrote: post #210

soneca wrote: post #62

What is sad to me looking from the outside it is that it didn’t have to be that way. Most of negative reviews seem to boil down to too many students, not enough support, not professional enough course management. Symptoms of growing pains. But why Lambda School had to grow that much that fast? It didn’t. It shouldn’t. It was at the expense of their students. Lambda School seemed a great idea from the start, revolutio…

CEO of Lambda School here. This is disappointing, of course. We have 180+ people working really, really hard to make Lambda School the best experience it can be. At times we’ll fall short, and, as another poster pointed out, the margin for error is just razor thin; thousands of happy and successful students can be out there, but it’s the ones who don’t make it or have a good experience that cause us to lose sleep (an…

“We’re properly resourced and not growing too quickly.”

All of this after saying things are suboptimally distributed.

Austen, you constantly snake your way out of accountability and admitting bad things come from your school. Why don’t you just man up and fix the problems and take a hit to your profit margin? Don’t get into education if it’s a money grab, you dumb schmuck.

Re: Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year

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Post by ndrestone » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 4:20 PM UTC

Lambda School is the biggest mistake. The most interesting part of Lambda School is that MOST (if not all) claim to have learned to code by themselves.

I'm yet to see a decent programmer who attributes their skill level to their school and not the books they read, the hours they practiced and stackoverflow / google.

Re: Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year

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Post by 908B64B197 » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 9:22 PM UTC

javaIsGreat wrote: post #435

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> The MIT CS guy did end up getting a great dev job right out of the program. I have no doubts he would. I'm doubting his very existence. Or, pretty sure he didn't pay retail on the bootcamp. I think going from absolutely no code experience to 70K by doing a 6 months bootcamp is simply impossible. The many articles on lambda illustrate that. For someone with a real CS or Engineering degree, I wouldn't waste any time…

If you are accusing me of lying im not lol. I assume he got north of 125k for a top dev job not 70k You could grow a lot as an engineer in three months in the right environment assuming a guided curriculum is able to channel your energies in the right places and teachers/fellow students are able to help as well. I imagine you could also be bored for 3 months, or overly stressed for 3 months, and have negative feeling…

> If you are accusing me of lying im not lol.

I'm just really surprised. I wonder if he paid retail for the bootcamp, that's all. I could very well see why the bootcamp operators would want a student like that on their graduate lists.

> They have hundreds of years of success and don't feel the need to teach more students every year.

That's what large public universities are for.