Lambda coding school accused of deceiving students out of thousands of dollars FacebookTwitterEmail Lambda School, a coding academy, is the target of an arbitration claim in S.F. that lawyers say bilked students of tens of thousands of dollars with deceptive payment practices.Yalonda M. James/The Chronicle Close to two years ago, Linh Nguyen found what she thought was her ticket to a job in tech when she enrolled in Lambda School, a San Francisco for-profit coding academy which promises students only pay tuition after they get a good-paying job. Now she has that tech job and an ample salary to match, but with no thanks to Lambda, which allegedly lied about its job placement rates while evading state regulators and provided courses that essentially asked students to teach themselves, according to a legal complaint filed in San Francisco on Thursday.