In 3 months you are guaranteed placement into top 30 companies or you get money back. (Google, Facebook, Quora, Palantir, etc)
The program lasts for 12 weeks. You need 2 hours per day commitment, everyday.
Any takers?
Ask HN: Would you pay $3,500 for an Interview Bootcamp?
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Re: Ask HN: Would you pay $3,500 for an Interview Bootcamp?
#212 * 7 * 2 = 168 total hours of commitment for a program I know nothing about, except that if you ask me to do something I believe is a waste of time I have to burn five figures in billable hours to ride it out and get the refund or sacrifice the $3,500.
I highly recommend you provide details of what precisely you are selling -- you've raised the stakes for all customers, so pitch me that I'll have more success with you than on my own.
Re: Ask HN: Would you pay $3,500 for an Interview Bootcamp?
#3Yes definitely
Re: Ask HN: Would you pay $3,500 for an Interview Bootcamp?
#412 * 7 * 2 = 168 total hours of commitment for a program I know nothing about, except that if you ask me to do something I believe is a waste of time I have to burn five figures in billable hours to ride it out and get the refund or sacrifice the $3,500. I highly recommend you provide details of what precisely you are selling -- you've raised the stakes for all customers, so pitch me that I'll have more success with…
>> you ask me to do something I believe is a waste of time
You can see the proof for yourself when you burn through the following two books within the three months. a) http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Interviews-Inside... b) http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-...
You need to spend 4hrs+ on weekends though. You will get to talk to candidates already working in the top companies and will be working in a group of 20+ highly motivated and intelligent peers.
Re: Ask HN: Would you pay $3,500 for an Interview Bootcamp?
#512 * 7 * 2 = 168 total hours of commitment for a program I know nothing about, except that if you ask me to do something I believe is a waste of time I have to burn five figures in billable hours to ride it out and get the refund or sacrifice the $3,500. I highly recommend you provide details of what precisely you are selling -- you've raised the stakes for all customers, so pitch me that I'll have more success with…
>> you ask me to do something I believe is a waste of time You can see the proof for yourself when you burn through the following two books within the three months. a) http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Interviews-Inside... b) http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-... You need to spend 4hrs+ on weekends though. You will get to talk to candidates already working in the top companies and w…
The work required for passing programming interviews is rote practice of solving problems for which you cannot immediately think of a solution.
There's already hundreds of resources available to do this. Top-coder, practice-it, project euler, coding interview books, etc. etc.
Teaching negotiation and soft skills are probably more valuable for the general programming population.
Re: Ask HN: Would you pay $3,500 for an Interview Bootcamp?
#6Why not give it away? People come for the bootcamp and after the 12 weeks you represent them during their job search. The companies will pay you $5-15k, depending on the candidate, as a referral fee. No cost to the participants.
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#7Why not give it away? People come for the bootcamp and after the 12 weeks you represent them during their job search. The companies will pay you $5-15k, depending on the candidate, as a referral fee. No cost to the participants.
>The companies will pay you $5-15k, depending on the candidate, as a referral fee.
I have tried, and from what I've seen, it is quite difficult to get that sort of a relationship with a company. If you have a recruiting agency that has that sort of relationship with a big company? You can sell your recruiting agency for a lot of money.
If you don't have a relationship with the company doing the hiring, you have to go through recruiters who do, and you will get $0-$2500 per referral. I've placed a lot of people at this level. I've gotten $2500 once. The rest of the time? I get a "thank you" (and the person I placed, often, feels they owe me a favor.)
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#8If you'd take the $3500 fee after I have the job, I think anyone would do it.
I'd even go so far as to say I'd be willing to give you guys 40-50% of my pay for 3 months.
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#10Interesting idea. Would there be any sort of pre-requisites? I could see something like this being pretty successful at private universities (where parents sometimes have more money than their kids have ambition/drive/talent). It would resonate with the same folks who pay big bucks for SAT and ACT prep classes