Keziyah

Most students who finish the first 9 months will go on to the Career Sprint. This part of the program is supposed to help students get a job. As you can imagine, it doesn't.

Anon 5 says that most students struggle to find jobs and barely get any help. Anon 1 says that there's no job assistance for students. Again, this is part of the program. They are paying tens of thousands of dollars to Holberton School...to apply for jobs with no help?

Anon 4: " It is not job placement help." The career sprint consists of "things readily available for free online and at many free and public meetups (resume review, algorithm practice, mock interviews..."

During the Career Sprint at Holberton School, students have to regularly report how many jobs they apply to. Anon 1 says that if you don't apply to a certain number of jobs each week, you'll be threatened with getting kicked out.

One frustrated student sent an email to their cohort and Holberton staff, in which they described the career sprint requirements as "a violation of my human rights", and "cruel and unusual punishment" that creates "tedious and unnecessary paperwork".

This student talked about how there's no benefit to doing the Career Sprint besides not getting kicked out. They complained about how instead of actually teaching Holberton students, the staff choose to treat them like children and mentally torture them.

They ended the email by saying that while they are thankful for what they learned at Holberton School, "if you insist on enforcing this "Career Sprint" bullshit, then you can shove it up your ass and consider this my withdrawal."

In June 2018, Holberton School had a talent fair. 40 employers were supposed to show up. An anon has provided me with a screenshot of an email from Sylvain Kalache (co-founder), stating that there will be 40 employers. Only a few employers were present at the talent fair.