Code Schools Outperform Colleges

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Ido, if the goal of school is to get a job, the coding schools out perform colleges. I found it really a tool that helps you valuate objectively, someone's actual coding performance. If you had somebody who knew exactly how to code swift or react or jam ascript to whatever you happened to be using in your sack, and they never went to school, but they spent two years teaching themselves that in ccode, they would get the job over somebody with h d, and, you know, computer science from stamford or harvard. Ostensibly. This is the purpose of the company.

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