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Can you talk about the age range of the students of your Hacker School and your understanding of the age range of the students at other Hacker Schools? The pic
by jerrya 14y ago
Can you talk about the age range of the students of your Hacker School and your understanding of the age range of the students at other Hacker Schools?
The pictures all show a bunch of well, young and attractive people. Regardless, coming out of the downturn, there are many experienced engineers struggling to shift from a diminishing part of the industry into web development.
Do you support such training/retraining and what would be the best thing such a candidate could do to get in?
- SethMurphy 14y agoWhile I entered Hacker School as a professional web developer, I did do it as a part of my "retraining". I wrote a blog post about it here: http://sethmurphy.com/my_programming_reboot http://sethmurphy.com/my_programming_reboot I already had over 10 years work experience. Of course my HS experience was as unique as anyone else's. It is what you make of it, nothing more, nothing less.
- jamii 14y agoMy impression was that the average age was mid-20s but there were definitely older people in those photos and at least one or two people with families of their own. It must be the revitalizing effect of hacker school that makes everyone look so young :D I suspect the bias is not in the application process but in the applicant pool. It's far easier for young people with no ties to pick up and spend three months in NY without income.