Re: [sudo-discuss] hacker schools discussion

Here's a good Fast Company article, they highlight the people who paid the money but didn't find jobs: http://www.fastcompany.com/3023456/become-an-ios-developer-in-8-weeks-the-t… - One example was pretty weird... there was a pregnant woman who enered dev bootcamp, and she couldn't compete with her 12 hours study days against others who were studying 16 hours a day. -- wow! what were they thinking? I think a hacker bootcamp would be a terrible idea for a pregnant woman / new parent. - One hacker school is in the Midwest, where there aren't that many mobile developer jobs and they were training people to be iOS Developers. Kind of weird. I love hacker schools, but they have to be extremely selective if they advertise to people that graduating students are going to get $70K a year jobs after only 10-15 weeks of study. The advertising of salaries is what bothers me a lot... As we've been discussing, I see totally shady for-profit institutions copying the hacker idea and fleecing unqualified students in the future. I don't want the good hacker schools to get shut down :( ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Hol Gaskill <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote: