Deferred tuition coding bootcamp model should be a textbook example of moral hazard/adverse selection.
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Replying to @akarp
disagree, given the burden of tuition which kicks in whenever you hit 6 figures or whatever the ISA number is, you have an incentive to take a FAANG job and get it out of the way before inflation ratchets it up
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I highly doubt that any of the coding boot camps can make a difference in whether someone gets hired by FAANG.
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Replying to @akarp
I agree that's true of most bootcamps, but the ones that give people enough technical skills to think they have a better shot at a startup than a big company might. Interested in
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Replying to @jaengelman @AustenAllred
Well, let’s parse what exactly it means to give people technical skills.
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On one hand we have people who are smart and driven. They would be “ideal students”. Unfortunately they are exactly the ones who have the least to gain from a bootcamp.
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On the other hand, a huge number of decent but not amazing students. They are not going to FAANG and many of them are not going anywhere even after the bootcamp.
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Replying to @akarp @jaengelman
Also not true. We’ve had multiple FAANG offers and we’ve only had grads for 6 months. It’s certainly not every student, but with 1500 hrs of training you can get there (we’re seven months, full-time, not including prerequisites)
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Your main assumption seems to be that if you’re a good enough engineer you’d make it on your own, and that if you wouldn’t make it on your own you’re not a good enough engineer. Neither are true. What % of Googlers would be there if a university education didn’t exist? Not 100%
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Replying to @AustenAllred @akarp
I've been lucky enough to work with a bunch of brilliant people, most of whom were not lucky enough (and it is mostly luck at this point) to do a CS major at a major research university. While it's easier than it used to be, to say there are no barriers to entry is silly.
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