École 42, a free, teacher-less university schooling programmers (2017) • Hacker News Board

Post by Gritt » Sat, Oct 13, 2018, 1:38 PM UTC

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Some of those anecdotes do seem pretty far fetched (the cat and battleship) but in my experience Epita/Epitech doesn't produce good software engineers and the director Nicolas Sadirac is from there. And, that director really has no idea what he's talking about in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrGgpwl5O4Q&feature=youtu.be... So, I'm rather skeptical when it comes to Ecole 42. We have great engineering schools in Fra…

> but in my experience Epita/Epitech doesn't produce good software engineers How so? It's one of the best IT schools from France and the concept was even adapted in the US. As an example, I could point to Docker which was founded by epitech students.

I've been an student assistant at Epitech. The truth is, some are OK but some are ridiculously good, and when I say good they are nowhere near occasional programmer or engineer skillset, they excel in a lot of fields, are able to switch up and learn tech in about 3 days and be very good at it, they learn constantly and have been exposed to innovation research daily. Most of my friends ended up working at Google or getting bought out by Google (Flat, or some of my friends that currently work at GG, most of the normies work in UK) - more importantly they do what they want.

Tbh, I don't know how you could impress an Epitech student that has been able to keep his feet on the ground. It happens that some of us get lost in their dark research garage (Hei !) and loose it up for a few, but that usually a period until they figure out what's wrong.

Thing is, most of us have been exposed to those crazy good dudes (Hei, i'll write my compiler day 1), (or i'll just make a game on my free time month 2) and steadily we got very very hard to impress.

Tough from how the friends have evolved, I assure you we are very concerned by correct resilient architecture.

It just happens of who you end up working with.