Lambda School lays off 65 employees

Re:Lambda School lays off 65 employees by whymauri on Thursday April 29, 2021 @07:15PM (#26988031)

>You assign precourse work that rejects 98% of applicants.

I think a good model for this is the Insight Fellowship. By selecting mostly STEM Ph.D. graduates, the pool of students already has some relevant background/foundation. The focus can then be on the tools and methods for applying DS in a corporate/business setting, which is actually relevant for jobs.

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Re:Lambda School lays off 65 employees by baron_harkonnen on Thursday April 29, 2021 @07:59PM (#26988365)

Insight grads, in my experience, have been a notorious joke. Nothing has diminished my respect for a PhD from a top-tier institution more than the people I have worked with coming out of that program.

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Re:Lambda School lays off 65 employees by whymauri on Thursday April 29, 2021 @08:23PM (#26988515)

Interesting, I've had the opposite experience. One of the best managers I've ever reported to and worked with came from the project. I've also worked with a few good engineers and scientists from there, too.

I suppose this is a reminder of The Law of Small Numbers and sample size importance!

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Re:Lambda School lays off 65 employees by apsurd on Thursday April 29, 2021 @07:44PM (#26988255)

i took parent comment to be a criticism of the model. This is not a school, the intention is not actually to teach anything.. lolz

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