sugarwater

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by sugarwater 5y ago
It's in the third month of the curriculum, after primarily only working with Google Colab in the previous two. Keep in mind that a majority of the students have never seen or touched a command-line, and trying to install various tools
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by sugarwater 5y ago
Can agree with you 100% about Unit 3 in the data science track. I know a few of my peers that walked out without even setting up their local development (because they were on windows and there was little help or instruction for students wit
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by sugarwater 5y ago
Above minimum, I believe. Last I heard the fellowship pays ~$15/hour
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by sugarwater 5y ago
Thanks! Nobody's ever told me that about my writing! My email is open if anyone wants to chat, to anyone that sees this :-)
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by sugarwater 5y ago
As a student that experienced the changes you were talking about... Before the TLs were removed, my code was vetted by my TL (and she was a good one, thank goodness), but after the changes, not a single person vetted it. I could probably ha
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by sugarwater 5y ago
As a Data Science student that just recently graduated from the program, it prepares you for a data analyst position, at best.... which essentially means any job where your primary role is to wrangle data.
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by sugarwater 5y ago
I graduated at the end of February and am still job searching. In the meantime I have a part time job and working through the MIT Computer Science OCW
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by sugarwater 5y ago
It's worth mentioning the the CEO Austen had a post on here (now deleted) proclaiming to have creating a bot army via stealing people's pictures on Instagram. I would qualify that as "underhanded"
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by sugarwater 5y ago
As a student that went through the program, I question if their incentives were aligned. During the middle of my enrollment at the program (Sept 2020), the school suddenly dropped all notion of grading, code review, and attendance, let alon
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by sugarwater 5y ago
Very much blind leading the blind leading the blind from my experience at the school
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by sugarwater 5y ago
After Lambda School completely removed code review, grading, attendance, TLs when I was enrolled... I just couldn't see how the incentives were aligned anymore. There was no one looking at my assignments, my assessments, my projects an
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by sugarwater 5y ago
You'd be better taken care of if you got hired by Amazon in a non-tech role and then applied to this program. What Amazon provides to employees who sign up: "Applicants accepted into the tuition-free program receive a stipend to c
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by sugarwater 5y ago
As a former student, I can't recommend Lambda. I am speaking to their quality of curriculum and lack of transparency towards their students. I hope from working with Amazon there'll be some quality assurance.
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by sugarwater 6y ago
Well, a LOT of students were unhappy about the changes. Truth is not a lot of students post about their experience on social media, and of those that are unhappy with the school dare not post under their real name. We’re job-seeking with th
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by sugarwater 6y ago
The point is that for all posts spanning back to 5+ months ago, the entire comment section is filled with students sharing their story and trying to stop other people from enrolling at the school. I'm not sure your post about the $100
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by sugarwater 6y ago
You're absolutely right.
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by sugarwater 6y ago
Here are a couple more recent links relevant to Lambda School: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA8obAJa414&t=500s https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/lvi6mz/lamb... htt
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by sugarwater 6y ago
Maybe they can turn it around? Idk. They certainly couldn't improve things quick enough when I was there. The most unfortunate thing is that Lambda is walking away with a tainted reputation.
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by sugarwater 6y ago
Yep. Plenty of controversy surrounding it, and I knew that coming in as a student. The reality is, is that I had a really good experience during the first month of the school (the "free-trial" period, where you can back out of you
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by sugarwater 6y ago
Students all across the board were and are still really upset. Some student posted a poll asking whether or not students liked the changes. Overwhelmingly, students answered NO, but soon after the poll was deleted by the CEO Austen. He&#x27
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by sugarwater 6y ago
I know that Lambda has now implemented an auto-grader, but it came too late for me. I was in that hole post-changes where Lambda seemed not to know what the hell it was doing, and graduated after. There was even a week where I tested whethe
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by sugarwater 6y ago
No more attendance was taken, as well, which left the biggest accountability hole. My first student mentor wasn't great, and ended up ghosting me after a week. I was ghosted by my second mentor as well. And by no means was this an unco
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Lambda School can't catch a break from upset students(reddit.com)
41 points by sugarwater 6y ago|24 comments
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by sugarwater 6y ago
The program-wide changes that angered students back at the end of September are still having effect all over social media... I was a student and was affected by the changes. I'll clarify here for anyone that wants the details... Prior
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by sugarwater 6y ago
I do not.
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by sugarwater 6y ago
I cannot wrap my head around how removing daily code reviews on assignments and assessments is an "improvement". Since these changes, I've seen many classmates continue onto the next unit that I _know_ should have flexed. Stu
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by sugarwater 6y ago
It's not an outlier of an experience. My cohort really did go through 2 units with no one looking at our assessments and assignments, and we determined whether or not we passed onto the next unit. It was an organizational mess.
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by sugarwater 6y ago
"Small" is really exaggerating the changes. Schedule is just a small part of it. But while we're talking about schedule, many parents that are students at Lambda School struggled hard with the increase of meetings after the c
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by sugarwater 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. In fact, most students will look for outside resources because Lambda's resources are poor. In fact, one of my instructors shares a PDF of Grokking Algorithms to his students because the school's CS conte
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by sugarwater 6y ago
PG should enroll and try the program himself before he offers any praise.

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