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Re:CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and ... by adubashi on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:24PM (#40070698)
There's probably a good argument to ignore rule breaking and little deceptive marketing if the student outcomes are good but it looks like in-aggregate that they weren't and that students were better off taking a loan and attending Oregon State's Post Bac in CS or Hack Reactor.
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Re:CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and ... by hocuspocus on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @07:07PM (#40071042)
And if you really believe you can succeed as an autodidact with minimal mentorship from previous batches of students, 42 schools[1] offer that for free.

It's shameful YC was still shilling Lambda one year ago[2] even though there's been a mountain of evidence about its deceptive practices for many years.

1. https://www.42network.org

2. https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5N-on-starting-and-scali...

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Re:CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and ... by michaelbrave on Thursday April 18, 2024 @03:09AM (#40073715)
I'm still sad about 42 in Fremont closing, but if you live near one, it was quite worthwhile.
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Re:CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and ... by maxerickson on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @07:31PM (#40071241)
There's no reasonable argument in favor of deceptive marketing. This idea that we should tolerate bullshit from people trying to make money needs to go away.

If the outcomes are good for the students, there won't be an issue with making them be straightforward about it.

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Re:CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and ... by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @10:53PM (#40072511)
> There’s probably a good argument to ignore rule breaking and little deceptive marketing if the student outcomes are good

A big thing that rule breaking and deceptive marketing due is cover up that the student outcomes are not good.

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