Getting Sabrina on the Record

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Sabrina was terminated from lamda in very contentious manner. She had a number of complaints about basically racism at the company. It came to a head when she was trying to push for, like, effectively, like diversity and inclusion training for the students as a reaction to how much interest student harassment was going on during lamd over slack. They tried to fire her claiming that they had put her on a pip before, but in the performance improvement plan. And then when they fired her, she countered with, but i'm not on a pip. What are you talking about? Then they shrieked out, but had peremptively already removed her from all company like slack

0:45 Jason intros Vincent Woo, who wrote "Lambda School's Misleading Promises" for New York Magazine
2:21 What drew Vincent to this story? What wrongdoings did he discover?
6:02 Vincent describes Lambda's ISAs and how they were sold
14:24 How Vincent approached Austen Allred as an investigative reporter & clip from Vincent's interview with Austen
16:19 What is Lambda's school actual placement rate? How does it compare with other coding bootcamps?
20:06 Getting Lambda's former Director of Student Placement on record to speak about the placement rates
23:43 Why ISA coding schools should exist
29:18 How Lambda's remote-only approach differentiates them & how opportunity cost plays into their issues
35:06 Where did Lambda School go wrong?
45:51 Does the business model work in broad strokes if opened up to everyone?
53:54 What does Lambda School need to do now?
58:21 Where is the blindspot in most entrepreneurs?
1:00:57 Vincent also writes about local political corruption in the Bay Area