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Re:Lambda School is a predatory bootcamp that lies about stu... by 908B64B197 on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @12:21PM (#26809250)
Few things I can't figure out from a tweet.

1 - Is Lambda going to train engineers already hired at Amazon and is just going to provide an onboarding bootcamp for new hires? Doesn't sound like a bad idea considering Amazon's scale and the amount of internal tooling they must have.

2 - Is Lambda going to supply bootcamp-grads programmers to Amazon?

3 - What do they mean by "Back-End"? Is it Software Engineering roles or back-end customer service/SRE they are training them for?

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Re:Lambda School is a predatory bootcamp that lies about stu... by chris11 on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @12:30PM (#26809379)
I'm not sure. From Lambda's website it looks like they are just releasing a program co-developed by Amazon. It's modeled off of an internal training program Amazon has. I didn't see any statements about interviewing or working at Amazon. I think Lambda would brag about a program that was designed to get students jobs at Amazon. I don't think there's any guarantee of a job or interview.

https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/lambda-school-launches-... https://lambdaschool.com/courses/backend-development

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Re:Lambda School is a predatory bootcamp that lies about stu... by 908B64B197 on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @12:39PM (#26809525)
> they are just releasing a program co-developed by Amazon

Ahh, so getting devs familiar with Amazon's product offerings.

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Re:Lambda School is a predatory bootcamp that lies about stu... by austenallred on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @01:09PM (#26809961)
It’s 2. Amazon needs to hire more backend developers. Though students aren’t guaranteed a job at Amazon, and can work any number of places with that skill set.
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