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That seems exceptionally unfair. They’re very up front about what they charge, how they charge it, and whether or not you even pay anything at all. I got a lot out of my overall college experience and so I probably wouldn’t opt for it, but if one of my kids was only interested in software development, I would suggest they attend Lambda School with no reservations whatsoever.

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People who don't like the idea of capitalism in general tend to not be huge fans of Lambda School.

But we only get paid $30k in the case where you get a software engineering job after Lambda School that pays $85k+. Everyone else pays less, and absolutely no one pays more than $30k.

Our upfront tuition for the nine-month, full-time course is $20k if paid upfront.

This is distasteful coming from the founder of this institution.

I'm pretty sure he dug through my history before making that comment and is downvoting any comments that are negative.

> I'm pretty sure he dug through my history before making that comment

yes

> and is downvoting any comments that are negative.

There are likely many people down voting based on the content of your comments here. Specifically, calling a school "scammy" and being generally negative about it, without providing much reason. For context, 30k is about 1/4 what I paid for my B.S., and mine did not come with a guarantee of employment. Is there some other reason you consider Lambda School to be a scam?

Not OP, but there is a myriad of reasons: https://twitter.com/KeziyahL/status/1155154616281178114

I don't read his comment as intended to be demeaning, but more a statement of fact. And it reads true to me. I have no skin in the game, but I follow a lot of the bootcamp-related discussions online, and what he said sounds exactly right to me. There are a ton of people who hear the idea of an ISA and say "so we're bringing back slavery?? thanks SV geniuses!!", and they seem to disproportionately come from the late stage capitalism crowd.

I didn’t mean for it to be distasteful but can see how it came off that way.

I read through the poster’s comments and it became clear we’re not going to agree based on general economic frame of reference.

85k? I thought it was 50k.

It’s 17% of income for two years.

So if you’re making $50k you actually pay less than the upfront tuition amount ($17k).

You have to be making $85k or more to pay the full $30k.

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