BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff

Re:BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff by sokoloff on Thursday December 01, 2022 @11:32PM (#33826810)

I have a couple of bootcamp grads who are good. Thing is, I’m 99% sure they’d have been good without the bootcamp time as well.*

Overall, I’ve had a terrible experience with the bootcamp “mills” that cram people though dozens in a batch and where all of them have some bullshit story about how they did customer interviews and then built an inventory manager for this (made-up) business. The story rhymes with a story that would be relevant but it’s entirely a veneer.

Those candidates are what a lot of people think of when they think bootcamp.

* this is the type of bootcamp experience that reads to me like the rare positive exception: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33826116

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Re:BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff by rchaud on Friday December 02, 2022 @11:50AM (#33832981)

That's a very rare exception: the mid-career professional that has already coded in a professional setting, and used the bootcamp to figure out how to market himself for SE roles.

Most bootcamp students will be young and not know the rules of the game, or the cultural signifiers that make them look 'employable'.

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