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CEO @LambdaSchool (YC S17): A CS education that's free until you get a job. I have made remarks that I do not agree with.

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    1. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Aug 13

      My thoughts on Lambda School’s career service/coaching offerings have evolved from, “This is a great help” to “Wow people would be completely screwed without this.” Crazy there’s no one that offers something like it as a service. So many small tweaks that make a HUGE difference.

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      Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Aug 13

      Also, IMO, one of the main reasons underprivileged demographics have such a hard time breaking into tech. Signaling “the right things” is so completely natural to someone in the ivy leagues, so foreign to someone who doesn’t have any support.

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        2. Karen Dawn Zachary‏ @KarenDZachary Aug 13
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          I think about this a LOT. For example, had an applicant use all caps. I don't think anyone would ever hire an applicant who used all caps. But this tiny miscue is so instantly fixable with the tiniest helpful nudge.

          2 replies 3 retweets 64 likes
        3. Emmanuel Quartey‏ @equartey Aug 13
          Replying to @KarenDZachary @AustenAllred

          Also, the unintended silent signaling of email. eg. how using a Gmail or Yahoo or AOL email address can cause you to be perceived in different ways. At another level, the signal of owning firstname@startupname.com vs firstname[dot]lastname@startupname.com

          1 reply 0 retweets 17 likes
        4. Shahriar Tajbakhsh‏ @STajbakhsh Aug 13
          Replying to @equartey @KarenDZachary @AustenAllred

          🤔 @equartey, what are the signalling differences between the two startup emails? first.last@ makes me think the company is larger. What else?

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        5. Matt Poldberg, Social Media Participant‏ @NotSpamIpromise Aug 14
          Replying to @STajbakhsh @equartey and

          I think that's the most critical difference. i.e. first@{startup}.com signals key role

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        6. Ash Suraz‏ @Superhero_you Aug 14
          Replying to @NotSpamIpromise @STajbakhsh and

          Or an early-ish founder/employee

          2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
        7. Steve Raymond‏ @steveray Aug 14
          Replying to @Superhero_you @NotSpamIpromise and

          Signaling not worth the recruiter and offshore dev shop spam I’m never doing firstname@ again

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        2. Del O. Johnson‏ @DelJohnsonVC Aug 13
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          It’s a huge issue for first gen kids in the Ivy League. Part of the value of the “education” is learning those skills.

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        3. Del O. Johnson‏ @DelJohnsonVC Aug 13
          Replying to @DelJohnsonVC @AustenAllred

          These “skills” are often arbitrary and highly raced and gendered in addition to being class markers.

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Del O. Johnson‏ @DelJohnsonVC Aug 13
          Replying to @DelJohnsonVC @AustenAllred

          Things like wearing an undershirt (working class marker), not matching belt color to shoes, or eating all of your food at a business dinner can give away your economic class origins. Source: poor kid who went to ivy.

          3 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
        5. Trevor McKendrick‏Verified account @TrevMcKendrick Aug 13
          Replying to @DelJohnsonVC @AustenAllred

          Goodness, am I not supposed to eat all my food at a dinner??

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        1. David McDougall‏ @dmcdougall Aug 13
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          this is pervasive in all elite professions, in different ways https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/02/city-of-london-dress-code-brown-shoes-finance … (I changed my accent when I went to boarding school and realised for the first time how much this particular class marker could hold me back)

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        2. Saurabh Verma‏ @jigripokri Aug 14
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          Hey @AustenAllred. I’m here whenever your students are ready to learn how to break into Product Management, or how to work well with product managers, designers, and other supporting functions. This is a good thing you’re doing. 🤜🤛

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Jiovan Melendez‏ @jiovan Aug 14
          Replying to @jigripokri @AustenAllred

          @AustenAllred - @jigripokri has my full endorsement.

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        2. Ryan Allred‏ @ryanallred Aug 13
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          Others can't do this because they don't have a remote campus. They need their physical classrooms for the next cohort. They're not comfortable with remote and haven't created that culture with their students.

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        1. Steve Weiner‏ @weenpeace Aug 13
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          at @shiftorg we believe career coaching is critical for high contrast career changes. kinda like a tax advisor. but everyone needs turbotax...

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        1. Sean Saint‏ @seanksaint Aug 13
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          Think even some folks in the Ivy Leagues don’t know the right signals. More about SES than college.

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        2. Emanuil Tolev‏ @emanuil_tolev Aug 13
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          I'm only now starting to think deeply about what people expect(ed) of me as a Eastern European immigrant and the significant +s it's brought me in certain situations coupled with a particular unconscious foolhardy brand of optimism. Very weird to think about it while living it.

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        3. Emanuil Tolev‏ @emanuil_tolev Aug 13
          Replying to @emanuil_tolev @AustenAllred

          Would be cool to start a business that provided advice on this to minorities as one of its outputs, not necessarily a commercial output. Difficulties I foresee are a/ my advice may not apply in the same way (diff. perceived ppl); b/ accidentally advising ppl to fit in too much.

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