BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff

Re:BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff by CSMastermind on Friday December 02, 2022 @12:40AM (#33827235)

I'm skeptical of that claim as well. I happen to have a roster of product and engineering employees at a FAANG company.

It doesn't include any information about their education but what I can do is pick a selection of the staff level engineers at random and look them up on LinkedIn.

Here's the highest level of education attained by the first 50 I looked at:

7 had a PhD in Computer Science

1 had a PhD in Physics

1 PhD in Electrical Engineering

12 had a master's degree in Computer Science

1 had a master's degree in Computer Engineering

1 had a master's degree in Information Management

13 had a bachelor's degree in Computer Science

1 had a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

1 had a bachelor's degree in Information Technology

6 did not list any educational experience

6 I could not find on LinkedIn

I did not see any that mentioned a coding bootcamp explicitly.

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Re:BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff by jurassic on Friday December 02, 2022 @01:20AM (#33827444)

My claim was not that all or even most Staff engineers at prominent companies come from bootcamp backgrounds but that bootcampers can and have achieved this level of success. My bootcamp cohort was over 9 years ago... anybody who didn't wash out in the very early days has had plenty of time to grow and make significant contributions. Not sure why people find this surprising.

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