I can't speak for Lambda, but this is also how AppAcademy in NYC operates. I used to work for a consulting company that hired multiple AppAcademy graduates and

I can't speak for Lambda, but this is also how AppAcademy in NYC operates. I used to work for a consulting company that hired multiple AppAcademy graduates and paid them $90-100k starting salary. Before that, they were making half that money, and we never would have hired them without the skills they learned at AppAcademy. The skills they acquired were worth vastly more than the tuition. They didn't have to go into debt to get the education. And had they failed to score a higher-paying job with a company like ours, they wouldn't have had to pay anything. This is a win across the board for them, and it's a pretty typical result.