Lambda School Bootcamp
The cluster focuses on Lambda School (now BloomTech), a coding bootcamp with an income-share agreement model, discussing its controversies, lawsuits, student outcomes, comparisons to other bootcamps, and promotional posts.
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Some links with feedback on Lambda School, if you're not familiar with them:- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415017- https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/11/21131848/lambda-school-co...<
This is the boot camp school formerly known as Lambda School, that came under a lot of fire in the past for these types of practices, and other issues.Previous trouble they've been in:https://dfpi.ca.gov/2021/04/26/lambda-school-reaches-settlem...<a href="htt
How's this different from Lambda School?
Wasn't there an article here on HN last week about Lambda School (?) students having problems? Something more than the usual inflation of hiring rates at the end of the program (https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/11/21131848/lambda-school-co...)?
> It’s already happening with companies like Lambda School focused on cultivating the next generation of software engineers by educatingBad example. Lambda School had some pretty bad press on HN about having lower completion rates than advertised, etc.
Have you considered something like Lambda Co-op?https://lambdaschool.com/blog/announcing-lambda-co-op-commun...
Yes, the one I did. Launch School (their Capstone program) is 1 year 18%ish ISA. Since, when I did it, 100% of my cohort got real-Dev jobs averaging 120k+, the school still got 20k+/student. They're the anti-lambda school in my book. If anything too modest in their marketing. Best decision of my life.
Sued by former students: https://www.forbes.com/sites/edwardconroy/2023/03/29/former-...
Hey, co-founder of Lambda School here.We launched our online CS academy with no upfront tuition almost two years ago.Now with thousands of students enrolled and hundreds already employed and paying back we wanted to take the next step and open up access to folks who couldn’t afford to pay to survive while attending.Of course, that introduces significant risk on our part, as students still only pay us back if they get a job paying $50k/yr or more, but we’ve spent the last two years
A few Twitter bots brought this submission to attention. If you don't have much background, here are some good starting points:https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/11/21131848/lambda-school-co...<a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/lambda-schools-job-placem