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Perhaps we should think of graduating as simply 'finishing' the curriculum. If you paid course fees and did the work, you should be able to walk out and say 'I
by 2muchcoffeeman 10y ago
Perhaps we should think of graduating as simply 'finishing' the curriculum.
If you paid course fees and did the work, you should be able to walk out and say 'I am a C student at RoR' with a certificate.
A company which hires through boot camps can ask for grades and choose to hire or not.
A C level student with other skills may still be valuable because of other skills they have and employable for junior or non dev roles.
Setting such a high bar pretty much just seems to be a way to manipulate data for marketing purposes.
- gohrt 10y agoHow does the company/school defend its brand against the C students sending out resumes that say "I am a student at RoR' with a certificate" and leaving out the grade part?
- losteric 10y agoSame as universities... they don't. Companies generally ask recent grads to send their college transcript.
- jacalata 10y agoThey do a better job of teaching them, which is what they are implicitly promising by telling prospective students "all our graduates get six figure programming jobs". If the unspoken caveat is "but half of our entering students were kicked out when we realised they wouldn't get one" then that's a much weaker claim, more like "given five weeks of intensive tutoring we can identify candidates for good jobs".