Revature coding program promises jobs but costs $36,500 to quit

Re:Revature coding program promises jobs but costs $36,500 t... by hunterloftis on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:36PM (#25931987)

> Like one place I did well on 3/4 coding challenges and kind of bombed the system design interview. None of these companies will look at that and say, well this person has potential let's give them a chance. They all will say, well they don't raise the bar so let's just keep our dozens of needed roles unfilled.

A bad engineering hire can result in worse outcomes than leaving a role unfilled because developers exert so much leverage through software. The risk when hiring developers is that they will create highly-leveraged negative value.

Taking your system design example, a poorly-designed system can:

- cost millions of dollars directly by failing its functional requirements

- cost millions more indirectly by being inefficient

- divert energy from other initiatives to fix

- dissuade other engineers from working at the company in the future

By this, I don't mean to say that we should demand interviewing perfection, or that the industry's interviewing process can't be improved. But it's important to recognize that "having potential" includes the potential for both good, and dramatically bad, outcomes.

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Re:Revature coding program promises jobs but costs $36,500 t... by treis on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:24PM (#25932662)

>Taking your system design example, a poorly-designed system can

Sure, but I had 0 system design experience applying for a role with 0 system design responsibilities. No reason to expect I could design a system like that or that I would need to be able to for that role.

I'm not saying that they're wrong necessarily. It's more a commentary on how there's a huge swath of companies with basically no entry level. You're expected to know CS fundamentals, a bunch of algorithms, and be able to design a highly scalable system.

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