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Codecademy Fellowship
- lbcadden3 14y agoConsidering there target audience they should be looking for those who have done n% of there site or some kind of contest.
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- southpolesteve 14y ago"$80,000 and regular employee benefits"
- larrys 14y agoI'm guessing that the use of the word "fellowship" is to make it more enticing for not only mom and dad to agree to let you take a year off from school but to make it sound like you are doing something truly special. Colleges of course do this already and it called by different names such as Drexel's coop program which has been around since 1919: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel_University http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel_University
- jhull 14y agoLike Northeastern's coop program as well. They build the 6-months to 1 year off into their degree. Not sure if any student's make 80K but they do make a decent amount for an intern http://www.ccs.neu.edu/co-op/employers/index.html#salaries http://www.ccs.neu.edu/co-op/employers/index.html#salaries
- zanny 14y agoSeems like they are more looking for a straight out of college graduate with a resume to match a 3 year industry vet. I'm sure they will get one - I know I did CodeAcademy over the last year to learn basic JS while I was bored in my senior year of CS, and most of my peers at least know what it is.
- kombine 14y ago"While your peers were content using MATLAB, you were off building things with NodeJS and learning Ruby on Rails." How can people who promote tinkering with NodeJS to build yet another web app instead of, say, studying machine learning algorithms in Matlab, teach computer science?
- haldean 14y agoThey never claim to teach computer science, only software engineering. I agree with you, though; the Codecademy guys are barely 2 years out of school (and one of them dropped out). Perhaps they aren't the best mentors one could find.
- mkramlich 14y agothat's a job not a fellowship and an abuse of the word fellowship. folks like Gosling, Rossum, Torvalds get fellowships.