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Part of me hopes this spread to other cities... but I'm wary of for-profit "colleges". As soon as it becomes apparent that there is a market for this type of t
by joejohnson 14y ago
Part of me hopes this spread to other cities... but I'm wary of for-profit "colleges". As soon as it becomes apparent that there is a market for this type of trade school, the market will be flooded with competing schools that quickly train people to code. Then, each school becomes less unique, and they have fewer employers to connect their grads with. Additionally, the schools themselves expand to accept more students (and make more money), but then the average student aptitude is lowered, and employers learn this, and the whole system implodes. Soon, grads can't get jobs right after their training and instead get stuck with student loans they can't repay.
And then recruiters just return to traditional schools for their first-round of screening.
- mehulkar 14y agoSounds like the definition of capitalism. Dev Bootcamp worked because the people behind it had good intentions. Other programs will fail of that's not the case.
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- jmtame 14y agoThat's why reputation plays such a major role. You can't just create a school and expect people to sign up for it, unless you're doing accreditation which is expensive, and eventually employers will see how poor candidates are from technical interviews and word will spread about those schools. What DBC is doing is building a brand and a reputation for having really smart people in their program. That's defensible and scalable. There are a lot of high-caliber people being involved with DBC now, it's no longer just Shereef (who is awesome).
- joejohnson 14y agoI guess that makes sense, but the concept is only scalable if they can keep differentiating themselves from the inevitable charlatans that they will be competing with.
- kabuks 14y agoScaling is over rated.