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by jdp23 798 days ago
Paul Graham, 2020: "Lambda School will teach you programming faster than most colleges. And it not only works well remotely, but was designed to from the start." [1]

Paul Graham, 2022: "Of 1277 students who graduated from Lambda School in 2020 and sought jobs, 950 got them, for a placement rate of 74.8%.

(Lambda's weirdly dedicated haters will be happy to hear that these numbers were audited by an accounting firm.)" [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1254809755681525762

[2] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1254809755681525762

3 comments

The “who sought jobs” is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

Need to know number of people who started program and number of people who got jobs at the end.

Having something audited by an accounting firm doesn’t make me trust the numbers much more. It’s well known that many accounting firms will give you whatever result you want as long as you pay enough
I’m sure the CFPB is taking action based on haters….