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Google Ventures invests in company that will churn out graduates that Google will never hire. Makes sense.

tinyvm 8y ago
Google Ventures invest in a company that will create future GCloud customers and advocate. A simple search on linkedin shows that most of Google Employees comes from Berkeley, Stanford etc... Not from bootcamps or "coding school".
- thewarrior 8y ago
  This could change soon.
barry-cotter 8y ago
A substantial portion of Google engineers don’t have any degrees. Here’s one person who got a job offer from Google after doing App Academy and them being an instructor there. Lambda School is more than twice as long as App Academy so presumably they cover more. https://haseebq.com/how-to-break-into-tech-job-hunting-and-interviews/ https://haseebq.com/how-to-break-into-tech-job-hunting-and-i... > Despite having first learned how to code almost a year before, having a background as an English major and former professional poker player, I was able to land a total of 8 offers including Google, Uber, Yelp, and Airbnb (where I ultimately joined). In this three-part blog post I’m going to describe my advice to a job-seeker trying to break into the tech industry.
- ovi256 8y ago
  Being an instructor there already puts him two average deviations above the average graduate, I think. It's still a good signal, though.
  - austenallred 8y ago
    To be fair, the average CS grad couldn’t walk into Google and get hired either, so it doesn’t bother me that on average Lambda School grads don’t go directly to Google.
austenallred 8y ago
First, GV and Google proper are completely separate entities, and neither seeks the other’s approval other than when Google writes a giant check to fund GV. Second, I’ll bet you $100 that there’s a Lambda School grad working at Google this time next year ;)
- yanslookup 8y ago
  I'll take that bet with conditions: - grad must have a rejection from an onsite interview at Google before lambda school - position must be for a T3 swe II
  - austenallred 8y ago
    That is very specific. They have to have made it to an on-site and been rejected before Lambda? Well that eliminates 99% of our student body from contention.
    - yanslookup 8y ago
      How else can we isolate the effects of the program? To be honest I subscribe to the idea that the FANG etc interviews are proxies for an IQ test. So it is entirely possible lambda school trains a high enough IQ individual and they pass a full loop. And by that I mean they pass based on their IQ AND the training they got in the program.
      - austenallred 8y ago
        If you subscribe to the idea that FAANG interviews are IQ tests, then by definition you won’t be able to isolate the effects of the program. I don’t think we really move the needle on IQ.
  - levthedev 8y ago
    That doesn't make any sense. Why would someone have interviewed at Google before doing a bootcamp like Lambda School, which is specifically meant to teach someone (with almost zero experience) programming? If you've made it to a Google onsite, you probably don't need to go to a bootcamp.

Google Ventures invest in a company that will create future GCloud customers and advocate. A simple search on linkedin shows that most of Google Employees comes from Berkeley, Stanford etc... Not from bootcamps or "coding school".

thewarrior 8y ago
This could change soon.

barry-cotter 8y ago

A substantial portion of Google engineers don’t have any degrees. Here’s one person who got a job offer from Google after doing App Academy and them being an instructor there. Lambda School is more than twice as long as App Academy so presumably they cover more. https://haseebq.com/how-to-break-into-tech-job-hunting-and-interviews/ https://haseebq.com/how-to-break-into-tech-job-hunting-and-i... > Despite having first learned how to code almost a year before, having a background as an English major and former professional poker player, I was able to land a total of 8 offers including Google, Uber, Yelp, and Airbnb (where I ultimately joined). In this three-part blog post I’m going to describe my advice to a job-seeker trying to break into the tech industry.

ovi256 8y ago
Being an instructor there already puts him two average deviations above the average graduate, I think. It's still a good signal, though.
- austenallred 8y ago
  To be fair, the average CS grad couldn’t walk into Google and get hired either, so it doesn’t bother me that on average Lambda School grads don’t go directly to Google.

austenallred 8y ago

First, GV and Google proper are completely separate entities, and neither seeks the other’s approval other than when Google writes a giant check to fund GV. Second, I’ll bet you $100 that there’s a Lambda School grad working at Google this time next year ;)

yanslookup 8y ago
I'll take that bet with conditions: - grad must have a rejection from an onsite interview at Google before lambda school - position must be for a T3 swe II
- austenallred 8y ago
  That is very specific. They have to have made it to an on-site and been rejected before Lambda? Well that eliminates 99% of our student body from contention.
  - yanslookup 8y ago
    How else can we isolate the effects of the program? To be honest I subscribe to the idea that the FANG etc interviews are proxies for an IQ test. So it is entirely possible lambda school trains a high enough IQ individual and they pass a full loop. And by that I mean they pass based on their IQ AND the training they got in the program.
    - austenallred 8y ago
      If you subscribe to the idea that FAANG interviews are IQ tests, then by definition you won’t be able to isolate the effects of the program. I don’t think we really move the needle on IQ.
- levthedev 8y ago
  That doesn't make any sense. Why would someone have interviewed at Google before doing a bootcamp like Lambda School, which is specifically meant to teach someone (with almost zero experience) programming? If you've made it to a Google onsite, you probably don't need to go to a bootcamp.