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> Udacity Dislikes: They are placing too large of a bet on the nanodegree concept. There isn't a clear ROI for students - and it's fairly clear that most compan
by cirgue 8y ago
> Udacity Dislikes: They are placing too large of a bet on the nanodegree concept. There isn't a clear ROI for students - and it's fairly clear that most companies don't really give a hoot about online certifications.
My company is really big and really old, and they do pay directly for nanodegrees through Udacity, and nanodegree completion is very much a factor in promotions because management has extremely poor insight into employee performance and this is one of the few verifiable non-trivial boxes you can tick. I don't know how common this is at other companies, but the strategy has worked for Udacity at least once.
- colmvp 8y agoThe problem is that some of the Nanodegree's are fairly trivial to get as solution code is available on Github. For me at least, the Nanodegree wasn't a defining feature for me so much as having very high quality produced videos.
- cirgue 8y agoYou're setting a very high bar for 'trivial' in the enterprise programming world outside of FANG. Half of the developers in my company would learn a nontrivial amount from having to copy and paste solutions from github.