[whiddershins]

I’ve been watching a housemate try the program, and it is so obviously terrible, I reached out to Austen on Twitter and offered to help.

He gave me an email address and then didn’t reply to some very specific examples I gave of obvious mistakes that are not based in cost or labor saving.

Anyway, why should he listen to me. Except that these are just elementary learning mistakes, and the whole thing appears to be run in a chaotic and unprofessional manner.

My friend will almost certainly quit. It is just so unfortunate because the premise is great.

[aidaman]

There are solid programs that offer ISAs now. e.g. Hack Reactor. I appreciate what Lambda School has done for the industry (pioneering the ISA), but the execution has been a total disaster. Trying to scale a business that relies on services, and basically zero technology, is a very, very bad time.

But there are companies that have been successful with it. (General Assembly, App Academy is having some success, Hack Reactor is growing, Flatiron School, Thinkful, Spring Board)

Next generation of bootcamps will be much higher quality instruction based on technology. (See Fullstack Academy)

And they will be partnered with big FAANGs, or built in-house by FAANGs. (Again, Lambda pioneering)