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Re:Lambda School Announces $14M Series A Led by GV by barry-cotter on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:14AM (#18175243)
A substantial portion of Google engineers don’t have any degrees. Here’s one person who got a job offer from Google after doing App Academy and them being an instructor there. Lambda School is more than twice as long as App Academy so presumably they cover more.

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> Despite having first learned how to code almost a year before, having a background as an English major and former professional poker player, I was able to land a total of 8 offers including Google, Uber, Yelp, and Airbnb (where I ultimately joined). In this three-part blog post I’m going to describe my advice to a job-seeker trying to break into the tech industry.

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Re:Lambda School Announces $14M Series A Led by GV by ovi256 on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:33AM (#18175353)
Being an instructor there already puts him two average deviations above the average graduate, I think. It's still a good signal, though.
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Re:Lambda School Announces $14M Series A Led by GV by austenallred on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:38AM (#18175385)
To be fair, the average CS grad couldn’t walk into Google and get hired either, so it doesn’t bother me that on average Lambda School grads don’t go directly to Google.
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