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Re:Lambda School Announces $14M Series A Led by GV by austenallred on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:01AM (#18175532)
That is very specific. They have to have made it to an on-site and been rejected before Lambda? Well that eliminates 99% of our student body from contention.
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Re:Lambda School Announces $14M Series A Led by GV by yanslookup on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:17AM (#18175666)
How else can we isolate the effects of the program?

To be honest I subscribe to the idea that the FANG etc interviews are proxies for an IQ test. So it is entirely possible lambda school trains a high enough IQ individual and they pass a full loop. And by that I mean they pass based on their IQ AND the training they got in the program.

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Re:Lambda School Announces $14M Series A Led by GV by austenallred on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:24AM (#18175719)
If you subscribe to the idea that FAANG interviews are IQ tests, then by definition you won’t be able to isolate the effects of the program. I don’t think we really move the needle on IQ.
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