[bradam]

YC recently invested in another European-based AI/data science online school, Strive School [0]. What are your main differentiators compared to them?

edit: Also, can you elaborate on this: "We're cheaper than Lambda school because we have optimized-focused learning platform & education processes. With that we can have 70% less staff to deliver the same and even higher education quality"?

Just want to understand your value propositon better as I am seriously considering to attend a bootcamp like yours.

[0]: https://strive.school

[kaminskis]

Hi, thanks, great questions! We give a lot more flexibility compared to the Strive School. There are no lectures or schedules at Turing College, and you can progress at your speed by unlocking each new part of the course on our digital learning platform. So we target a wider audience of people from software engineers who want to upskill (this isn't the case for Strive school as they don't provide such flexibility) and people who requalify to data science.

Also, our curriculum is co-created with tech companies we partner with as our Hiring Partners (we have 17 partners now). So, we know what those companies are looking for in new hires, and we adapt our curriculum accordingly; we also have their commitment to hiring our grads with our job placement program. Strive school doesn't do that.

If I understand correctly, Strive School curriculum is mostly presented in video recordings. With us, you'll be a part of our tight-knit community of peers and industry professionals, interacting daily via online calls or discord chats and working on real-world projects that our Hiring Partners are now solving.

As for the "70% less staff to deliver the same and even higher education quality ", this is enabled by letting students assess each other's work with the supervision of Senior Data Scientists. It means that we don't need senior staff for every project assessment but only for crucial ones. So by having the platform that organizes assessments in that way, we ensure the quality and the need of less senior staff. We can track how students are assessing each other, and they are doing that objectively. With our learning platform, which follows that we can react to any cheating situation instantly.