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Google Ventures invests in company that will churn out graduates that Google will never hire.

Makes sense.

First, GV and Google proper are completely separate entities, and neither seeks the other’s approval other than when Google writes a giant check to fund GV.

Second, I’ll bet you $100 that there’s a Lambda School grad working at Google this time next year ;)

I'll take that bet with conditions:

- grad must have a rejection from an onsite interview at Google before lambda school

- position must be for a T3 swe II

That is very specific. They have to have made it to an on-site and been rejected before Lambda? Well that eliminates 99% of our student body from contention.

How else can we isolate the effects of the program?

To be honest I subscribe to the idea that the FANG etc interviews are proxies for an IQ test. So it is entirely possible lambda school trains a high enough IQ individual and they pass a full loop. And by that I mean they pass based on their IQ AND the training they got in the program.

If you subscribe to the idea that FAANG interviews are IQ tests, then by definition you won’t be able to isolate the effects of the program. I don’t think we really move the needle on IQ.

That doesn't make any sense. Why would someone have interviewed at Google before doing a bootcamp like Lambda School, which is specifically meant to teach someone (with almost zero experience) programming? If you've made it to a Google onsite, you probably don't need to go to a bootcamp.

At least one T3 (or higher!) Lamba School graduate working at Google by 10/9/19? I'll take that action!

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Done

I'll throw in a few buck to the winner just to hear about the result.

Google Ventures invest in a company that will create future GCloud customers and advocate.

A simple search on linkedin shows that most of Google Employees comes from Berkeley, Stanford etc...

Not from bootcamps or "coding school".

This could change soon.

A substantial portion of Google engineers don’t have any degrees. Here’s one person who got a job offer from Google after doing App Academy and them being an instructor there. Lambda School is more than twice as long as App Academy so presumably they cover more.

https://haseebq.com/how-to-break-into-tech-job-hunting-and-i...

> Despite having first learned how to code almost a year before, having a background as an English major and former professional poker player, I was able to land a total of 8 offers including Google, Uber, Yelp, and Airbnb (where I ultimately joined). In this three-part blog post I’m going to describe my advice to a job-seeker trying to break into the tech industry.

Being an instructor there already puts him two average deviations above the average graduate, I think. It's still a good signal, though.

To be fair, the average CS grad couldn’t walk into Google and get hired either, so it doesn’t bother me that on average Lambda School grads don’t go directly to Google.

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