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I come from the failed Lambda School UX program. It wasted more than a year of my life. And to add insult to injury, after having succeeded in learning UX on my

I come from the failed Lambda School UX program. It wasted more than a year of my life. And to add insult to injury, after having succeeded in learning UX on my own + finding employment, I now send them a mortgage payment's worth of $$$ every month, until I reach that $30k limit. What a damn scam.

literallyaduck 5y ago
Start talking with your state's attorney general's office about your experiences and how you were sold something that was not as advertised.
arthurwu 5y ago
How did it suck?
- devteambravo 5y ago
  Students graded students papers. Racism. Unending trolling on Slack. Peers panicking as they realize the program was not "finished". (ie: We were paying beta testers) Being roped in to the web dev program when I didn't want to be a dev (This happened after the UX program was shut down). I could write a book
  - Daishiman 5y ago
    Move fast and break people.
    - devteambravo 5y ago
      People who aren't equipped to deal with it, mainly. People who won't fight back. It's disgusting
      - 0des 5y ago
        Your testimony sounds a lot like those of the peers I have who were from ITT Tech.
        effingwewt 5y ago
        And Hallmark, and every single other for-profit school ever. And Lambda is worse as they take off the top from future earnings. Glad this dumpster fire is big enough to garner serious attention finally. Can't wait till austen et al come into the thread with their PR bullshit and lies as per usual. edit- tale->take
robocat 5y ago
I wonder how many university students are jealous of you? I spent three years doing a Bachelor of Engineering, which I consider three years lost. The piece of paper got me a job, but I certainly felt I was less valuable after finishing the degree than I was before it (negative learning is a thing).
- ZephyrBlu 5y ago
  Why do you feel that you were less valuable after you completed your degree?
  - robocat 5y ago
    I loved electronics and had self taught myself before Uni, but the university material was mostly theory and maths, and I was put off the career for life. (Note: I had no trouble with the mathematics). Other negative values: Much of what was taught was useless knowledge. Some of it was harmful (the pet theories of wacko lecturers). Anything useful was still rote learning with zero reality. It is all channeled towards exams of well defined problems with correct answers - harmful at the meta level. Note that Canterbury University engineering school is well respected in New Zealand. I happily believed in the schooling system for the first two years (a simple continuation of high school), but the final year of uni then became an insane grind after I realised how pointless the material was (I am more academically inclined, so it took me a while to learn my stupidity). I still wanted to finish the degree - possibly due to sunk cost fallacy - although the piece of paper got me my first software job. Opportunity cost of 3 years of life is insanely huge (I didn’t really get anything long term out of university socially: the first two years were fun at the time). It is normally a four year degree, but I skipped the first year (no academic consequences, although the decision probably had social repercussions due to my young age compared with majority of classmates). I sadly still see the same issues happen with university these days: I have seen a nurse (University degree) and a early childhood teacher (University degree) get “taught” the most insane useless shit. The degrees cost years of life, lots of money, and a heavy cost to their egos (it is an extremely evil system at times: compulsory arselicking etcetera).
    - 5y ago

literallyaduck 5y ago

Start talking with your state's attorney general's office about your experiences and how you were sold something that was not as advertised.

arthurwu 5y ago

How did it suck?

devteambravo 5y ago
Students graded students papers. Racism. Unending trolling on Slack. Peers panicking as they realize the program was not "finished". (ie: We were paying beta testers) Being roped in to the web dev program when I didn't want to be a dev (This happened after the UX program was shut down). I could write a book
- Daishiman 5y ago
  Move fast and break people.
  - devteambravo 5y ago
    People who aren't equipped to deal with it, mainly. People who won't fight back. It's disgusting
    - 0des 5y ago
      Your testimony sounds a lot like those of the peers I have who were from ITT Tech.
      - effingwewt 5y ago
        And Hallmark, and every single other for-profit school ever. And Lambda is worse as they take off the top from future earnings. Glad this dumpster fire is big enough to garner serious attention finally. Can't wait till austen et al come into the thread with their PR bullshit and lies as per usual. edit- tale->take

robocat 5y ago

I wonder how many university students are jealous of you? I spent three years doing a Bachelor of Engineering, which I consider three years lost. The piece of paper got me a job, but I certainly felt I was less valuable after finishing the degree than I was before it (negative learning is a thing).

ZephyrBlu 5y ago
Why do you feel that you were less valuable after you completed your degree?
- robocat 5y ago
  I loved electronics and had self taught myself before Uni, but the university material was mostly theory and maths, and I was put off the career for life. (Note: I had no trouble with the mathematics). Other negative values: Much of what was taught was useless knowledge. Some of it was harmful (the pet theories of wacko lecturers). Anything useful was still rote learning with zero reality. It is all channeled towards exams of well defined problems with correct answers - harmful at the meta level. Note that Canterbury University engineering school is well respected in New Zealand. I happily believed in the schooling system for the first two years (a simple continuation of high school), but the final year of uni then became an insane grind after I realised how pointless the material was (I am more academically inclined, so it took me a while to learn my stupidity). I still wanted to finish the degree - possibly due to sunk cost fallacy - although the piece of paper got me my first software job. Opportunity cost of 3 years of life is insanely huge (I didn’t really get anything long term out of university socially: the first two years were fun at the time). It is normally a four year degree, but I skipped the first year (no academic consequences, although the decision probably had social repercussions due to my young age compared with majority of classmates). I sadly still see the same issues happen with university these days: I have seen a nurse (University degree) and a early childhood teacher (University degree) get “taught” the most insane useless shit. The degrees cost years of life, lots of money, and a heavy cost to their egos (it is an extremely evil system at times: compulsory arselicking etcetera).
  - 5y ago