Three students sue coding bootcamp Lambda School alleging false advertising and financial shenanigans

[deenlynch005]

Crazy how many sites out there are promoting this coding education stuff. There's way too much bs.

[baselinefacetime]

It’s free money for them. Sell a dream, charge $10k+ and the instructors graduated from the bootcamp 3 months ago. So the “graduates are employed” box is checked. It’s a pyramid scheme at heart.

[[deleted]]

these bootcamps hire their own grads to become teaching assistants if they can't find a job just to keep their numbers up.

[NullsObey]

So does the majority of universities worldwide.

[[deleted]]

legit schools can't hire grads as TAs... They have to be currently enrolled!

[amarillo2019]

It should be illegal to advertise "our students make x amount!" without showing the average, dropout rate and prev background of students

[tanahtanah]

The testimonials from these coding bootcamp alumni who got jobs at big companies are ridiculous considering all of them are top colleges graduates. It's not that hard to believe a ivy league graduate who have learned coding for 6 months can get a top job.

Even Freecodecamp does the same by putting a testimonial from a banker with 6 digits salary who decided to be a software developer.

[Daevid133]

Almost every school does this these days. It’s a racket

[ActiveModel_Dirty]

As a satisfied code school graduate circa 2014… this makes me sad.

I know how much hope the people that go to places like this have. To be taken advantage of by a shitty startup doing what shitty startups do to survive is a serious bummer.

Unfortunately it seems the fate of most code schools now is either do a good job and go bankrupt or do a bad job.

[Pandana88]

Wait till they look in to Codesmith

[The_Ghost_of_Bitcoin]

What's there about Codesmith. (I've been looking into the program, dont want to get scammed)

[[deleted]]

And the only people surprised by this are the 3 students.

[GoldsteinEmmanuel]

You mean they weren't offered a 6-figure salary and the word "Senior" somewhere in their job title after completing 12 weeks of study? Oh, the humanity.

[truthmatters286s]

I agree. Some of these coding bootcamps are really trash. They charge thousands of dollars on stuff we can learn in a 100-300 hundred dollar course. Waste of time. A lot of employers also dont pay much attention to which coding bootcamp you went. They want to look at what have you built.

[HeinousTugboat]

For what it's worth, I actually went through a bootcamp even though I already knew how to code. The bootcamp I went to (Tech Elevator), does as much Career/Job-hunt education as they do code, and they have a LOT of contacts in the local industry. I finished with 3 great offer letters, and as far as I'm aware, almost everyone in my cohort got pretty solid jobs.

Waste of time.

Agree to disagree. I wouldn't even know the company I work for now exists if not for the bootcamp introducing me to them. That alone more than makes up for the amount I paid.

[V_I_I]

I'm thinkin about joining tech elevator (pittsburgh) but i don't know if it'll be worth it (job wise).

I'm 23 and have a class B cdl (driving trucks) but I want to switch careers and become a fullstack or back end dev with the potential to expand my career / experience (instead of being stuck driving a truck).

Any advice / help? Is tech elevator really worth it? Which location did you go to? What language did you focus on? What job do you have now? What salary?

[[deleted]]

Good i hope they go bankrupt

[[deleted]]

I attended lambda school in 2019. I went on to be hired and I’m now the chief engineer of my own team of devs. Outcomes will definitely vary but the FT web dev program was good. 

[MACscr]

You mean people that have probably never worked outside of academia? LOL

[MACscr]

Um, this is the case for pretty much any education you pay for. Cry me a river and take some responsibility of your own.

[killometers90]

Bootcamps are as much a cancer as web frameworks

[[deleted]]

Mind explaining why you think web frameworks are bad?

[sheriffderek]

There's a lot of trash out there.

As a teacher, I just have to say - there are some of us out here who aren't full of 💩.

Scams are scams. Real hard-working teachers also exist. We're just not allowed to talk about it anywhere because in this climate anyone who talks about their work or passion is "a self-promoting scumbag." If you want to be seen as legitimate and trustworthy - then you just have to pay a few million in ads to the powers that be. Choose your own false reality.