Part of what our students do is visible on GitHub; until graduation some of it is not. Yet you went on the record stating that Lambda School doesn’t include very basic things in the curriculum and students aren’t qualified. You had no idea. Then students, who are qualified and battling with intense imposter syndrome, come to me terrified and doubting themselves because someone who has literally never seen the full curriculum is making stuff up about it on the record. Don’t you understand the harm you’re doing? Then you just ask me to ignore that fact? No, I will not. If you’re making stuff up out of whole cloth on the record once, why would you stop?
I did say the hiring rate of a cohort of one student was 100%. And in the same tweet I said, in all caps BUT VERY SMALL SAMPLE SIZE. Odd how that doesn’t make the article, don’t you think?
So far in two anecdotes we have two incredibly misleading things pulled out to paint a picture of unethical behavior, and you cite as evidence for unethical behavior that very article. Doesn’t that give you pause?
Do you ever question your prior assumptions, especially after realizing you were wrong, or is it all pitchforks all the time?
> I did say the hiring rate of a cohort of one student was 100%. And in the same tweet I said, in all caps BUT VERY SMALL SAMPLE SIZE. Odd how that doesn’t make the article, don’t you think?
It's in the article. Twice.
> Yet you went on the record stating that Lambda School doesn’t include very basic things in the curriculum and students aren’t qualified.
I said, "Students are going to struggle with very basic questions you’ll get on first phone screens." I have never blamed the student. I feel terrible for them, and I'm impressed by students who succeed in spite of the program.
> You had no idea.
I read the whole curriculum. I even sped through the videos. How else would I know about the two Block Chain lectures?
You asked for evidence. I can't think of better evidence than student projects that should have failed, but you rubber stamped through anyway.
As mentioned in the article, I had found ten student projects. Is that too little? Is it ok to just review one, as long as I say "VERY SMALL SAMPLE SIZE"?
> Then students, who are qualified and battling with intense imposter syndrome, come to me terrified and doubting themselves because someone who has literally never seen the full curriculum is making stuff up about it on the record.
I know plenty about the suffering of your students. When things are clearly broken in the program, they seek out help, and they're fed a bunch of garbage about it just being imposter syndrome.
Or that time you cut the staff who grades homework, and told everyone this had nothing to do with money. Later you admitted it was all about money.
These students thank me for speaking out, because they're afraid of retaliation. They feel lied-to and manipulated. They feel trapped.
And in this vulnerable state, you leverage the power dynamics to pressure them into signing NDAs.
I did say the hiring rate of a cohort of one student was 100%. And in the same tweet I said, in all caps BUT VERY SMALL SAMPLE SIZE. Odd how that doesn’t make the article, don’t you think?
So far in two anecdotes we have two incredibly misleading things pulled out to paint a picture of unethical behavior, and you cite as evidence for unethical behavior that very article. Doesn’t that give you pause?
Do you ever question your prior assumptions, especially after realizing you were wrong, or is it all pitchforks all the time?