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by ibeckermayer
1912 days ago
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Sad tale. I went to a competitor of theirs, Holberton School, and also left with a bad taste in my mouth (whole other story). I would recommend others try Lambda, which in retrospect seemed like a better choice. It sounds like the quality has really degraded since then (this was 2018). I can’t help but think this is related to chasing venture returns. College needs to be “disrupted”, but there’s not necessarily a way to do this that creates the type of leverage of a SaaS company. I recall seeing Austen on here once boasting about how he’d raised upwards of $70m, and my first thought was that I hope this doesn’t destroy them... now they’re at $122m |
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> It sounds like the quality has really degraded since then (this was 2018).
I'm skeptical of bootcamps. Lambda has "student TAs" that are basically three months ahead of the students they coach. Contrast this to a real school where your TAs are, at worse, undergrads who completed the course and were personally selected by the professor in charge.
That and, from what I've seen, a lot of bootcamps are light on theory and are more focused on rote. A lot of "graduates" will have a "portfolio" but if you go peek at the code from multiple students of the same batch you'll see that it's basically the same project 30+ students did. Same structure, same lines. What I would expect out of a first year CS lab assignment.
> College needs to be “disrupted”, but there’s not necessarily a way to do this that creates the type of leverage of a SaaS company.
It's a policy issue. Having easy access to (non defaultable) students loans created an amenities arm race.