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It’s generally just the largest and highest prestige tech companies that pay for $80/month worth of training for their employees. I suspect the price is a barri
by AlchemistCamp 4y ago
It’s generally just the largest and highest prestige tech companies that pay for $80/month worth of training for their employees. I suspect the price is a barrier not only for the median dev, but even for the median American dev. It’s likely a bit of a barrier even for the 20th percentile dev living in the US.
In other words, if the quality of this offering is excellent, it will be a powerful example of the Matthew Effect. The best compensated 5-10% of mid-level devs will pull further ahead.
I can definitely see going for the corporate training budgets as an appealing business model, though.
- kodah 4y agoYeah, I'd love to use this service. Some of the challenges are really cool sounding. That said, I don't even pay $80/m for my IDE, and that's a critical tool I can't go without at this point. One data point I learned being a programmer in the American South was that companies generally did not pay out for things like conferences, education (aside from college) etc... If you want to serve those folks (and I suspect there's a lot of them!) then the price point might need to be different.