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What is a student decides not to pursue software engineering? Do you still take your cut? In my experience, the market is oversaturated with code bootcamp grads

What is a student decides not to pursue software engineering? Do you still take your cut? In my experience, the market is oversaturated with code bootcamp grads; many of them decide to go back to their previous profession.

austenallred 9y ago
We only take a percentage if you get a career in software engineering, so we have built that kind of risk into our model.
- koolba 9y ago
  Is there a time limit after which the debt is forgiven? What prevents someone with no intention of finding a job of signing up for the free education? EDIT: I'm entirely serious about part two. I know quite a few people that would love to learn programming but, AFAIK, have no intention of working in the tech world. I could see them taking advantage of something like this. Most of them work in non-tech functions in an office environment. So learning programming would be useful to them but it's not their actual job.
  - austenallred 9y ago
    The income share is forgiven after five years. Hopefully we can weed those types out in application process.
  - Amygaz 9y ago
    You know me? I'am considering taking CS as a part-time education, but I have no intention of becoming a software engineer.
    - koolba 9y ago
      Exactly. There's tons of people like that. Not sure how they'd filter them from the rest. There's a lot of careers where it'd be incredibly useful too. Even just basic data munching with awk/sed puts a person light years ahead of people stuck with Excel copy pasta.
      - boomer1204 9y ago
        I'll say this if it's just for "fun" for someone I don't think it would work that well. I took the first PT bootcamp (I paid) and that was a HUGE undertaking. They are only going FT in the near future until they can figure the other options time wise, so if that person has a day job that would make it tough and if they didn't have a day job I would imagine "most" people aren't going to complete the whole thing anyways. I'm sure a couple of people will squeak through but I don't see that being a huge issue with the course work being on the more difficult side of things especially for someone coming from a non programming background.
  - acchow 9y ago
    They still need a job to pay the bills, don't they? As long as that job pays over $50k, I'd assume they'd have to pay the commission.

austenallred 9y ago

We only take a percentage if you get a career in software engineering, so we have built that kind of risk into our model.

koolba 9y ago
Is there a time limit after which the debt is forgiven? What prevents someone with no intention of finding a job of signing up for the free education? EDIT: I'm entirely serious about part two. I know quite a few people that would love to learn programming but, AFAIK, have no intention of working in the tech world. I could see them taking advantage of something like this. Most of them work in non-tech functions in an office environment. So learning programming would be useful to them but it's not their actual job.
- austenallred 9y ago
  The income share is forgiven after five years. Hopefully we can weed those types out in application process.
- Amygaz 9y ago
  You know me? I'am considering taking CS as a part-time education, but I have no intention of becoming a software engineer.
  - koolba 9y ago
    Exactly. There's tons of people like that. Not sure how they'd filter them from the rest. There's a lot of careers where it'd be incredibly useful too. Even just basic data munching with awk/sed puts a person light years ahead of people stuck with Excel copy pasta.
    - boomer1204 9y ago
      I'll say this if it's just for "fun" for someone I don't think it would work that well. I took the first PT bootcamp (I paid) and that was a HUGE undertaking. They are only going FT in the near future until they can figure the other options time wise, so if that person has a day job that would make it tough and if they didn't have a day job I would imagine "most" people aren't going to complete the whole thing anyways. I'm sure a couple of people will squeak through but I don't see that being a huge issue with the course work being on the more difficult side of things especially for someone coming from a non programming background.
- acchow 9y ago
  They still need a job to pay the bills, don't they? As long as that job pays over $50k, I'd assume they'd have to pay the commission.