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It feels very much like that to me which is why it’s strange there isn’t a Kaplan equivalent. There’s interview cake and leetcode, but I think people would pay
by fossuser 8y ago
It feels very much like that to me which is why it’s strange there isn’t a Kaplan equivalent.
There’s interview cake and leetcode, but I think people would pay $2k for a class that focuses on the questions and in person whiteboard practice.
They could collect information about the interviews at the major companies and then use those to create the program. For payment could also help candidates negotiate and then take a cut of the signing bonus.
If this isn’t part of lambda school already I think it should be.
I already work at a competitive tech company, but I’d sign up for this in a second to help me stay competitive for interviews.
- austenallred 8y ago> If this isn’t part of lambda school already I think it should be It’s part of classes for our existing students, but it isn’t a single offering. One day.
- fossuser 8y agoCool - if you need somebody to help I’d be interested.
- acb1990 8y agoApp Academy was working on something like this, last time I checked. I believe it's more focused on people who've already been through their program working on getting the next-step-up job from their first so I don't know if it's generally advertised/ available
- pmiller2 8y agoThose courses are out there. I saw one for $5k and ran for, IIRC, 8 weeks, that covered the entire interview process.
- Frost1x 8y agoI've noticed several groups that offer SE interview specific training out there now that I'm stepping through this interview process after the landscape has changed since my last position. It's funny that after doing some searching, many proponents of this widely adopted and poorly researched interviewing methodology appear to be running businesses selling training for these interview processes... surprise, surprise.
- chooseaname 8y agoThe only way I would consider paying for a course like this is if, upon successfully completing it, I would not have to do the technical portion of the interview at companies I applied to. They would accept this cert and just do the soft skills interview.
- Apocryphon 8y agoSounds like a neat segment for Triplebyte to move to- or for a competitor to capitalize upon.
- alboy 8y agoOne could argue that CS undergraduate degrees are perfectly suited for this purpose. FAANG & Co don't seem to care for that. You've successfully passed a few dozen exams at MIT or Stanford? Well, let's make the reasonable assumption that you have no clue about algorithms and data structures and start with our third whiteboarding session, that should be a way better proxy for your knowledge.
- erik_seaberg 8y agoThose incentives are misaligned. Not every law school grad can pass the bar.
- alboy 8y agoThey may very well be, but is the quality of signal truly worse than that which an interviewer can extract from a few hours of your writing code on the board?
- erik_seaberg 8y agoThere are people with degrees who can't code. I'd prefer we don't hire them, so we ask for coding.
- reificator 8y agoThat's called college, and experience has shown that the people who have the certificate aren't guaranteed to know how to write a fizzbuzz.
- Apocryphon 8y agoThe major ones seem to be Outco and Interview Kickstart. But agreed, there's far fewer whiteboarding/interview process-specific bootcamps compared to web/mobile bootcamps.
- TrinaryWorksToo 8y agoThis is exactly what Outco.io does, and I highly recommend them for this purpose.
- fossuser 8y agoLooks interesting - have you used them?
- TrinaryWorksToo 8y agoYes! I felt I was noticeably better at selling myself in interviews, which was my primary goal for going through them. I didn't feel I had enough of a support network to properly prepare otherwise. There's a lot of technical stuff, that goes by very quickly, and also equal amount of non-technical, this-is-how-recruiting-works content.