[0] https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1211717254712135680
edit: the thread author just replied that BPPE followed up and said Lambda has recently applied:
https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1216075710818766848
> In a follow up BPPE said they recently applied. They also said it’s not possible for any school offering ISAs to meet the legal requirements.
This is nuts.
Does Lambda School market itself, and/or have students in, New York State?
https://twitter.com/KeziyahL/status/1155154616281178114?s=19
https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/8qopsz/if...
I could find some more about their instructor roster change but forgive me, I'm traveling internationally today.
I actually ended up in chats (directly and indirectly) with a few different LS alumni who didn't know what to do, as they were unable to find work and afraid to speak out against LS for not doing a good job.
Being a good self-promoter puts you prominently in the public eye which is I think attracts a lot of detractors/haters. There are also competitors with very similar offerings who can't match up to Austen's hype machine. They want to claim there is some fatal flaw at the heart of LS to make Austen look like some kind of fraudster. This seems despearate to me.
There are always dissatisfied students. I remember when I was an undergraduate I got into arguments with people on a private facebook group who felt that the course should have been more "spoon-fed" to us and that the exam questions were unfair. People come to higher education with widely varying expectations. As the old adage goes, you can't please all of the people all of the time.
That said, my antenna is up for any serious criticism of AA and LS. So far I've not seen anything beyond to-be-expected low-level grumbling, which is being pounced on his strange growing harem of haters. Which only adds weight to pg's article, in my opinion.
1. Their employee list (not updating it quickly after major staffing changes)
2. Legal status: misrepresenting to the public and to customers that the company is licensed to operate in that capacity or is proceeding illegally?
3. Pressuring it's subscription customers to publish positive stories about the product and reportedly even threatening their access to it.
I ask because this article comes out days after a Business Insider article about a high profile YC company. Its author uses the words "fraud" on their twitter and "cult" in the article, and makes some of the accusations that I've listed above. It's difficult not to suspect the two events are linked.