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Re:MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U by 908B64B197 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @08:49PM (#27683671)
At this point it's pretty well known bootcamps are not a great hiring pipeline. Unless you can get "grads" at a significant discount. There's a reason Lambda is so desperate that they will "loan" you someone for a month at no costs (the VCs pay for it!). [0]

[0] https://lambdaschool.com/hire-fellows

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Re:MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U by rtpg on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @09:07PM (#27683780)
That is probably very bootcamp-dependent, I've found bootcamp grads have been very good. In particular, the fact that most grads have had "real jobs" elsewhere mean that they have good people skills/time management/actual sense of "getting things done" that vastly outweighs the skill imbalance.

Hell of a lot easier to increase someone's React knowledge than it is to, like, fix how they interact with people.

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Re:MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U by 908B64B197 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @12:48PM (#27690722)
> I've found bootcamp grads have been very good.

Which one? What was comp like for these new hires?

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Re:MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U by jlund-molfese on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @09:10PM (#27683794)
Oh wow, “100+ of our US-based engineers have been hired just this year?” That’s significantly lower than you’d expect.
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