Online coding school Treehouse lays off most of its staff
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Re: Online coding school Treehouse lays off most of its staff
#2Would love to know what caused this to happen, given (as the article says) huge amounts of money being poured into (seemingly) similar businesses.
Re: Online coding school Treehouse lays off most of its staff
#3Would love to know what caused this to happen, given (as the article says) huge amounts of money being poured into (seemingly) similar businesses.
I remember reading a number of articles by / about the founder Ryan Carson similar to this one, about not taking unnecessary investment: https://medium.com/@ryancarson/not-silicon-valleys-timeline-...
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#4Ironic that most people taking their courses are doing so to be able to ..... get jobs.
I always liked Treehouse's presentation but it was a bit pricey compared to other services like Udemy for example.
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#5I know that not all remote learning companies are doing great, Khan Academy which was booming in the mid teens had layoffs as well. In addition Udacity has also had multiple rounds of layoffs as they are struggling with profitability. Those 2 mentioned are very prominent and if they are doing bad then smaller players like treehouse probably are not doing great also.
I don't agree with the no management change they did but thought the 4 day workweek was a smart idea. Microsoft japan reported that a 4 day workweek increased productivity by 40% - https://www.npr.org/2019/11/04/776163853/microsoft-japan-say...
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#6Why would a learning platform need 41 employees? These are all instructor and expert videos. Were these 41 employees instructors? If not, for just the infrastructure is it really necessary to have 41 employees?
Re: Online coding school Treehouse lays off most of its staff
#7I know that not all remote learning companies are doing great, Khan Academy which was booming in the mid teens had layoffs as well. In addition Udacity has also had multiple rounds of layoffs as they are struggling with profitability. Those 2 mentioned are very prominent and if they are doing bad then smaller players like treehouse probably are not doing great also. I don't agree with the no management change they di…
The 4 day work week was great. It was just a convenient scape goat for failed business initiatives at the time.
Re: Online coding school Treehouse lays off most of its staff
#8"Treehouse rolled back the no-boss workplace in 2015, saying employees felt they were 'lonely islands with no support' without a management structure."
Re: Online coding school Treehouse lays off most of its staff
#9Would love to know what caused this to happen, given (as the article says) huge amounts of money being poured into (seemingly) similar businesses.
I imagine part of the problem is many of these coding schools are scams. It isn't that people can't learn from them, but what they are teaching is usually just too narrow to be all that useful.
Re: Online coding school Treehouse lays off most of its staff
#10Would love to know what caused this to happen, given (as the article says) huge amounts of money being poured into (seemingly) similar businesses.
I imagine part of the problem is many of these coding schools are scams. It isn't that people can't learn from them, but what they are teaching is usually just too narrow to be all that useful.
Treehouse isn’t a school or bootcamp. It is just video lessons and such.