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Viking Code School
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Re: Viking Code School
#12"Participants will need to complete a binding job search agreement and must be willing to relocate for a job if they reside outside of selected cities."
Really? So basically you have no choice but to relocate if they can't place you in a job where you live.
Also, they never say what type of programming job they can give or if you have a choice on accepting the job or not. what if you graduate and they get you a job across the country that paying $50K a year? do you have to accept it or pay the tuition fee?
also the curriculum posted on the site, isn't that detailed on what you will learn.
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#13"Participants will need to complete a binding job search agreement and must be willing to relocate for a job if they reside outside of selected cities." Really? So basically you have no choice but to relocate if they can't place you in a job where you live. Also, they never say what type of programming job they can give or if you have a choice on accepting the job or not. what if you graduate and they get you a job a…
So don't sign up. For some this is the golden ticket into the middle class, and worth the price.
I'm guessing its really a trainer/recruiter for a contracting firm. But so what? That's a great first job for a graduate - lots of experience quickly.
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#14"Participants will need to complete a binding job search agreement and must be willing to relocate for a job if they reside outside of selected cities." Really? So basically you have no choice but to relocate if they can't place you in a job where you live. Also, they never say what type of programming job they can give or if you have a choice on accepting the job or not. what if you graduate and they get you a job a…
I really like their concept, and believe this is the direction non-free education should move toward (satisfying the goals of both the provider and most students). I hope that they are so confident in their program that the answers to your questions will lean much more toward giving the job seeker the freedom to choose what is best for him/herself.
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#15The interesting part of this is the "don't pay if you don't get hired" part of the policy. Sure, a couple of the big in-person boot camps have that, but I've never seen it online-only.
The trick here is the required 2000$ deposit upon obtaining a reserved spot in the course. This 2000$ is refunded (with fees deducted, I would guess) 6 months after the end of the course if no job offers were made to you.
I'm guessing that receiving a 40k/yr offer from a small-town business on the other side of the country means they clap their hands and claim their prize. Of course they want you to have the biggest salary you/they can find within 6 months, but other than that, location and conditions and other factors are irrelevant. If that's all they can find for you, they'll take it, and from what I could tell of the fine print you either take it too or pay the remaining 10800$ in full immediately.
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#16Boy given my user name, it seems like I should try this out!
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#17"Complete software engineers", eh? Does that mean things required for modern software engineering, like complexity theory and relational calculus?
Or are they just skipping over this?
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#18"Participants will need to complete a binding job search agreement and must be willing to relocate for a job if they reside outside of selected cities." Really? So basically you have no choice but to relocate if they can't place you in a job where you live. Also, they never say what type of programming job they can give or if you have a choice on accepting the job or not. what if you graduate and they get you a job a…
So don't sign up. For some this is the golden ticket into the middle class, and worth the price. I'm guessing its really a trainer/recruiter for a contracting firm. But so what? That's a great first job for a graduate - lots of experience quickly.
> So don't sign up. For some this is the golden ticket into the middle class, and worth the price.
Therein lies the catch, I think. It's not the golden ticket people want to believe it is... but telling people that the offer of their dreams is a sham is a losing proposition.
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#19"Complete software engineers", eh? Does that mean things required for modern software engineering, like complexity theory and relational calculus? Or are they just skipping over this?
It is also my pet peeve to call a Web Developer a Software Engineer. It's rather antiquated. Being a full-stack webdev is about knowing how all the different pieces fit together.
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#20"Complete software engineers", eh? Does that mean things required for modern software engineering, like complexity theory and relational calculus? Or are they just skipping over this?
It is also my pet peeve to call a Web Developer a Software Engineer. It's rather antiquated. Being a full-stack webdev is about knowing how all the different pieces fit together.
I suspect they're relying on the confusion. A fully educated software engineer likely has a long and remunerative career ahead of them. A web developer may not, and one trained this way almost certainly lacks the breadth of skills required for said career as a software engineer.