Good! I was involved deeply in tech career volunteering several years back when this was called Lambda school. Writing was on the wall about Lambda even then

Good! I was involved deeply in tech career volunteering several years back when this was called Lambda school. Writing was on the wall about Lambda even then based on student feedback from a 100+ student multi year sample size in the orgs I helped. Consistently students raised: ISAs coming to much larger payments than advertised. Constantly changing curriculum. The classic one for bootcamps - blind leading the blind with former students teaching the always changing curriculum, and juicing graduation employment stats. If I recall I even broke out the ol’ discounted cash flow math with students to actually sort out what the rate lambda was getting on these ISAs, and ya it was payday loans basically. But, we saw justification after illogical justification about this setup. Former students employed by lambda getting aggressive. otherwise pretty well-meaning groups who had vendorized tech career support partnering with Lambda, despite seeing the same feedback as I did bc the company leads were in the same groups as I was. Takeaways from all this if you or people you care about are trying to use these conduits to build a tech career and are evaluating options like Lambda vs a degree and so on: - market can stay illogical, and same with its supporters, longer than when good, clear as day data about fraudulent (or more politely “very obscure and novel pedagogy approaches”) practices surfaces to counteract that narrative. - people and orgs who have staked their future on that illogical/fraudulent market will roast their reputations in face of that evidence for much longer than you think or respect - the feedback that matters should be the primary sources: the students that since 2019 or so started pointing out all these practices in bulk. It is now 5 years later and who knows how many students who shredded their career goals by depending on schools like this.