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Re: Lambda School lays off 65 employees

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Post by randallsquared »

rcthompson wrote: post #56
wbronitsky wrote: post #32

The levels of inhumanity and doublespeak in here are staggering. This post attempts to euphemize 65 people losing their incomes, and probably healthcare, to the point that it reads almost as farce. Not to mention what the impact will be on those remaining, students and staff alike. "...they believe it's impossible to make this model work. We strongly disagree." This is wildly insensitive to those involved. I find it…

I thought "right-sizing" was a fake term made up to parody the already euphemistic "downsizing". I can't believe people are actually using it.

I thought it was meant to avoid embarrassment when the same organization hires new people at or near the same time?

Re: Lambda School lays off 65 employees

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Post by bboylen »

lifer555 wrote: post #21
idoh wrote: post #9

That's too bad. I'm rooting for Lambda School, they are trying hard to innovate in the area of education. Maybe ISAs are the future, maybe not, but the traditional university track of spending out $100K+ is clearly not the future. They should have been really excelling during the 2020 year of covid, I wonder where things went wrong. Anyone know?

I am a recent LS graduate. The program is a total shit show. I was able to get a job but I would never recommend it to anyone. They are just very good at marketing. Great idea, terrible execution.

How was the job search? Was LS' career services useful at all? I'm a self taught dev that is going to start looking for a job in a few months

Re: Lambda School lays off 65 employees

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Post by akanet »

Any former employees interested in speaking to a motivated reporter about their experience, please feel free to contact me. My contact information is on my account bio. I am happy to speak to you completely off the record, in any manner that makes you comfortable. I have never lost a source.

Re: Lambda School lays off 65 employees

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Post by sheeshkebab »

teruakohatu wrote: post #28

Can someone explain how you can train Data Scientists in 6 months? What jobs do these grads walk into? The tech prerequisite is: "You should feel extremely comfortable with how a computer works including: touch-typing, web browsers, search engines, and basic computer programs." The Curriculum: Stats, Linear Algebra AND Data Wrangling: 4 Weeks Modeling: 3 Weeks Data Engineering, Databases, SQL, Productionisation: 3 We…

I could see that working for someone with a technical/engineering/math degree who wants to change profession.

Re: Lambda School lays off 65 employees

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Post by temp8964 »

I hope they success.

The traditional higher education is becoming more and more a scam. Federal government is backing almost all the student loans, but universities automatically increase their tuitions. The student loan crisis is a clear indication that this model is not working. For the past 20 years, in-state public university tuitions have increased more than 200% [1]. Now the total student loans count to approximately $1.6 trillion [2].

In the past, America had a tradition of wealthy people create new universities. Now we only have the rich donating to established universities, but no longer building new ones. Elite universities are all about powers, instead of educating more people, that's why they don't make efforts to expand their campus or create new campuses. Ever heard Harvard build a new campus in a different city? Or Yale acquire an not so successful private university to level to it up so that their success can spread out and more students can be benefit? No.

I cherish people who want to build a new model for higher / technical education. And wish them the best luck. There certainly will be trails and errors. And I hope them can power through.

1. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-co...

2. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/08121...

Re: Lambda School lays off 65 employees

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Post by JohnJamesRambo »

rcthompson wrote: post #56
wbronitsky wrote: post #32

The levels of inhumanity and doublespeak in here are staggering. This post attempts to euphemize 65 people losing their incomes, and probably healthcare, to the point that it reads almost as farce. Not to mention what the impact will be on those remaining, students and staff alike. "...they believe it's impossible to make this model work. We strongly disagree." This is wildly insensitive to those involved. I find it…

I thought "right-sizing" was a fake term made up to parody the already euphemistic "downsizing". I can't believe people are actually using it.

I think it is perfect because it assigns blame at the right place in my mind- the people that had no idea what they were doing and hired too many people in the first place.

Re: Lambda School lays off 65 employees

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Post by nrmitchi »

teruakohatu wrote: post #28

Can someone explain how you can train Data Scientists in 6 months? What jobs do these grads walk into? The tech prerequisite is: "You should feel extremely comfortable with how a computer works including: touch-typing, web browsers, search engines, and basic computer programs." The Curriculum: Stats, Linear Algebra AND Data Wrangling: 4 Weeks Modeling: 3 Weeks Data Engineering, Databases, SQL, Productionisation: 3 We…

I kind of suspect it's a bit of a light-weight Pareto principle: you can gain 70-80% high-level knowledge (note that I said knowledge, not understanding), which is enough to get started with some real-world applications with sufficient handholding and mentoring.

I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, but expectations should be set appropriately.

If you've pre-screened to select for candidates who would be able to take that and run with it, I'm not suprised that you could achieve a sufficient amount of decent outcomes.

Re: Lambda School lays off 65 employees

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Post by lifer555 »

staticautomatic wrote: post #39
pilingual wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about it makes you say that?

The job is at a fast food restaurant.

I got an entry level SWE position. A bunch of my peers have also landed really awesome positions. It's all about what you put into it, but Lambda School as a whole is just very chaotic. I think if executed properly it would be a pretty good option for people.

Re: Lambda School lays off 65 employees

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Post by agf »

teruakohatu wrote: post #28

Can someone explain how you can train Data Scientists in 6 months? What jobs do these grads walk into? The tech prerequisite is: "You should feel extremely comfortable with how a computer works including: touch-typing, web browsers, search engines, and basic computer programs." The Curriculum: Stats, Linear Algebra AND Data Wrangling: 4 Weeks Modeling: 3 Weeks Data Engineering, Databases, SQL, Productionisation: 3 We…

I think one of the reasons bootcamps get away with this kind of thing is that, for at least many people, traditional schooling also fails to teach this material. So if you're going to just teach people enough to get a job, but not actually to do it, better to do it for "cheap" in 6 months than, say, expensively in a 2 year masters program.

I think the problem above is probably somewhat worse for data science than software engineering in general, but it applies broadly to quantitative jobs in the tech industry, in my experience.

Re: Lambda School lays off 65 employees

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Post by chrisseaton »

HenryKissinger wrote: post #34
teruakohatu wrote: post #28

Can someone explain how you can train Data Scientists in 6 months? What jobs do these grads walk into? The tech prerequisite is: "You should feel extremely comfortable with how a computer works including: touch-typing, web browsers, search engines, and basic computer programs." The Curriculum: Stats, Linear Algebra AND Data Wrangling: 4 Weeks Modeling: 3 Weeks Data Engineering, Databases, SQL, Productionisation: 3 We…

> Stats, Linear Algebra AND Data Wrangling: 4 Weeks Ridiculous. Introductory statistics and linear algebra are two separate undergraduate level courses. And if you want a real grasp of statistics, you need to learn probability theory first, which is another semester long course. To say nothing of "data wrangling", whatever the fuck it means.

> Introductory statistics and linear algebra are two separate undergraduate level courses.

Lol why?

What difference do you think it make which topics you put in which courses?

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