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BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff

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Re: BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff

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Post by hitekker »

adoxyz wrote: post #233

My brother went to Lambda school 2019-2020. Would not recommend. They had recent grads that had just completed Lambda the previous year teaching the new students and most of them had just a vague grasp on the content matter. So many inaccuracies and bad practices taught. The only good thing about it was that it was structured and you were coding each day for 5-8hrs so if you weren't the most self-motivated person, yo…

Before I read this article, I was on the fence and didn’t know much about lambda tech.

Now after reading https://mobile.twitter.com/fulligin/status/14526586408091975..., I’m much more negative.

The CEO seems like a con-man who has conned himself. The worrying part is that some commenters seem to be falling for the lies he’s telling himself.

Re: BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff

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Post by MivLives »

a_lieb wrote: post #243
MivLives wrote: post #118

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I do not have this knowledge. There used to be a site that categorized boot camps by results. Maybe try that? My general advice is to get some one to try https://www.theodinproject.com/ as it's free. If they try it for a bit and find they don't like it, no harm they can just stop. If they want to continue after a bit and still want to go a boot camp they're more likely to succeed at any of them.

> There used to be a site that categorized boot camps by results. Maybe try that? I think you're talking about either the Council on Integrity in Results Reporting (CIRR) [1], or Course Report [2] (both still up). CIRR is a body run by the code school industry itself to monitor its own results; Course Report has over 50k reviews by students as well as articles with tips about how to pick a code school, "top x code sc…

Thank you for pulling these up. I am in fact talking about both of these (admitted in my head I had mixed them into one site). I know at one point Course Report was flooded by Lambda Students as they were encouraged to leave positive reviews.

Re: BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff

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Post by educaysean »

dzader wrote: post #220
austenallred wrote: post #203

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The fact that we changed our name because of a trademark lawsuit is a matter of public record https://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/candce/4:2019cv...

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We're fully in the territory of conspiracy theories now

Re: BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff

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Post by AceJohnny2 »

eastbayjake wrote: post #306
AceJohnny2 wrote: post #168

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My partner went to Makersquare (since bought & rebranded Hack Reactor). They joined a successful small e-commerce site (Javascript), then a few years later joined Loon (Google X) (Python), and sensing the wind switched to another Google X project before Loon shut down. They're doing pretty well, if I say so myself.

> My partner went to Makersquare (since bought & rebranded Hack Reactor) Which in 2018 was bought and integrated into Galvanize!

lol I can't keep up!

The interesting thing is that much of the value of a diploma/certification is in the "brand" backing it.

In any case, I don't think my partner was counting on the value of the Makersquare brand as anything other than getting their foot in the industry, so that's done and gone.

Re: BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff

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Post by shytey »

hitekker wrote: post #310
shytey wrote: post #234

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You can surely see they are helping a lot of people, in addition to what you believe on the negative side of things. Not trying to be snippy or offer a trick question, but genuinely, what do you get out of this? Surely it's not worth your time. Even if he is the biggest scammer on the planet you are probably better off spending your time on constructive things.

Nice try. The same question applies to you, since you’ve jumped from one comment thread to another defending a sketchy business in the midst of a downfall.

Fair point!

Re: BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff

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Post by albedoa »

austenallred wrote: post #159
gamblor956 wrote: post #157

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If he's going to lie, yes.

Feel free to point out where I lie

Okay: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33827631

What is meant by "this is fair" if not a tacit admission that you lied about launching an unpaid intern program?

If you define a lie as any stated falsehood that you have not tried to explain away, then of course we will not be able to find one that satisfies — you've made sure of it!

It's the same method you use to reach your "86% making over $50k within 6 months" number.

Re: BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff

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Post by filmgirlcw »

austenallred wrote: post #207
filmgirlcw wrote: post #181

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You were cheering. You’re still cheering. And you’re doing it while you’ve had continuous layoffs of your own staff that have put everyone who works for you, or anyone unfortunate enough to be part of your predatory boot camps, in jeopardy. I don’t take any joy or schadenfreude from your failures. Real people’s lives are involved and it genuinely makes me sad. But glass houses dude. Glass houses. Maybe when you’re ow…

I was not cheering, and my opinion is consistent; as money becomes much tighter companies have to rightsize themselves to the amount of revenue coming in. This is true across Silicon Valley and it is true of us. https://twitter.com/austen/status/1588336949403611136?s=46&t...

Why do you need to comment at all, I guess is my question. Why not spend the time trying to run your own business rather than callously argueing how over-staffed Twitter was. Why does that matter to you? You don’t work there. You aren’t one of Elon’s investors. Why not just keep your thoughts to yourself, the day 3700 people lost their jobs, instead of pontificating about how a company needs to rightsize itself? Especially when you had to know you were weeks away from laying off half your remaining staff.

Someone else mentioned you need to spend less time online and you argued that you’re not that online and that the dopamine rush is worth it for you. Fine. Deal with it in therapy. But know that it looks incredibly tone deaf that the day you lay off half your staff (and the day after), you’ve spent hours debating yourself and justifying your actions on HN and shitposting on Twitter.

Have some fucking tact.

Re: BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff

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Post by throwaway2729 »

austenallred wrote: post #156
7sidedmarble wrote: post #144

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It was the way the layoffs were conducted which was the objectionable part. Not even taking a week to assess means it was just haphazard.

That is fair. Elon took an 8,000 person company and went full "move fast and break things" mode.

Went "unempathetic" mode. He didn't have to do what he did and in the way he did. You were cheering for him instilling fear in the remaining employees.

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Post by devwastaken »

hitekker wrote: post #311
adoxyz wrote: post #233

My brother went to Lambda school 2019-2020. Would not recommend. They had recent grads that had just completed Lambda the previous year teaching the new students and most of them had just a vague grasp on the content matter. So many inaccuracies and bad practices taught. The only good thing about it was that it was structured and you were coding each day for 5-8hrs so if you weren't the most self-motivated person, yo…

Before I read this article, I was on the fence and didn’t know much about lambda tech. Now after reading https://mobile.twitter.com/fulligin/status/14526586408091975... , I’m much more negative. The CEO seems like a con-man who has conned himself. The worrying part is that some commenters seem to be falling for the lies he’s telling himself.

Same type as those that run uni's. This is all about maximum profits, the original mission was lost long ago. Now it is about sustaining the org for the paychecks of admins.

Re: BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff

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Post by Dwolb »

austenallred wrote: post #128
Dwolb wrote: post #122

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What are the hiring rates and the average and median improvements in salary?

You can see our 2021 audited outcomes report here with all of the data https://www.bloomtech.com/reports/outcomes-report . (Note: 2021 outcomes report is very recent as you have to get students graduated, give them time to get placed, etc.) Some of it I'm thrilled about, some of it shows us where we have more work to do (or need to do better in admissions - candidly it's always a difficult balance between giving folk…

Hey so I’m not your marketer, but my 2 cents is to revamp that page to read more like a “proof of performance report” i.e. remove the fluff.

The selling on the entire page makes it feel untrustworthy, which is the exact opposite of the intent.

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