Our feedback loops take a while; we have to make sure that we can 1. Get the right students in the door 2. Help them know what they need to know 3. Help them get hired and 4. Not lose money doing so Running multiple experiments simultaneously speeds up the feedback loop
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In the past two weeks we launched: Replacing phone interviews with live class trials Concierge (let us find the best student for you) Apprenticeships (let us help you build an apprenticeship/internship at your co) Custom (let us teach to your specific stack)
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Austen, have you considered doing something with the thousands of skilled U.S. coders who have decades of experience but are dealing with age discrimination and
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What would you suggest we do? We had a 45 year old hired last week if that answers that question
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1) A 45 year old, I gather, who came in as a novice and whose age wasn't known to the employer in advance. 2) But the invitation to comment is appreciated. Nothing negative was intended. It's just that... all this talk every day about new people... what about the experienced?
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I’ve never met an experienced engineer who couldn’t find a job. Maybe I’m not looking hard enough.
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No, you're not. I've met quite a few of them. One startup in S.F., same building as Twitter, offered me a job. There was no job. They set up a test that was actually a 3-day project to rework their core software for free. That is how it goes for old coders without connections.
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Some of the old coders are desperate. They don't understand what's happening or where to turn. They learn soon enough that they're expected literally to disappear. I'm not as naive and will survive. But there is an entire layer of the tech world that you don't know about.
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Makes me ask how these older coders perform on coding tests such as those on hackerrank or triplebyte. Are there not ways that their knowledge can speak for themselves?
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Speaking for myself, one firm put me through a 2-hour test and said that I was rated at the top for "Just in Time Learning". That issue isn't the point. The point is that firms are allowed to say "We're looking for somebody fresh out of school" despite this being illegal.
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