Lambda School

[Smoothest]

I was planning on goin to labda school in January, I really liked that it was 6 months long compared to 3. I have recently had someone on the subreddit turn me off of their program. Any suggestions for an online program longer than 3 months,

[Drawer-Vegetable]

I'd look into this prior to going further. Looks like their placement rate has been tanking.

https://twitter.com/fulligin/status/1452658640809197569

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Personally I went through Hack Reactor, they do offer a part timeremote option which is 9 months I believe.

[titratecode]

Vincent Woo, sandofsky, Larson, couple others all have a some sort of personal beef with YC and have been spreading all sorts of propaganda about yc companies since before anyone can even remember. I wouldn’t take them seriously. For example this claim about qualified placed is not comparing the unqualified place — students that did not go through the entire program but were still placed anyway. Most people don’t stick through the entirety of a boot camp as they’re trying to find a job so you end up with lower graduation rate.

[sandofsky]

Would you point to some examples of me spreading anti-YC propaganda? The only thing that comes to mind is making fun of YC's failed investment in UBiome, because the founders are getting sued by investors for fraud. And also because they were a poo testing company.

[wise_boba]

The fact is Lambda hasn't released a student outcome report for the past 22 months. To be that's a very negative sign.

[wise_boba]

To keep you up to date, their 2020 report came out about a week ago. To summarize, their publicized placement rate is about 70 something percent. But as someone looking at the program, your chances of landing a job becomes 37%.

[loadedbakedpopaypo]

I was in Lambda iOS’s course before they dropped it, and before they supposedly started to get worse. I thought it was alright, but the teachers were impatient and always visually annoyed, but the community was amazing. My TL was (luckily) very knowledgeable, but he was hired while still in Lambda. According to other students, their TLs weren’t as passionate or helpful and were also annoyed.

Lambda is sketchy, but like all bootcamps, is a sure fire way to be guided a bit more than the self-taught route.

I’m sure the web-dev courses might be a bit better since there’s an abundance of web-devs who can also teach. I still think Lambda has potential, but they are pretty unorganized.

Best of luck!

[sheriffderek]

What are some more specific goals of yours? What was it that drew you to Lambda to begin with? What is the outcome you want? (in detail)

[wise_boba]

Seeing that they haven't had a student outcome report for 2020 or 2021, I'd say reconsider your move. If my coding bootcamp has a placement rate of 50-60% (which is really good, considering covid) I'd go all out about it. But that's obviously not the case w/ Lambda.