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Over the last decade, scores of programs have promised coding skills for a new economy. Many of their graduates succeed. And many don't, left on the hook for some of the same high costs as traditional higher education.
They offer a quicker, cheaper learning alternative to college but don’t always deliver on the promise.
Some former students say it "stopped being a school" and felt it wasn't worth attending. Leaked documents from all-hands meetings help explain why.
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 t...
Three students sue coding bootcamp Lambda School alleging false advertising and financial shenanigans Lambda School has attracted a lot of attention, and raised some $130 million in venture funding from an impressive list of investors, for its novel approach to coding education: offering six-month virtual computer science courses for $30,000, with the option of paying for the courses in installments based on a sliding scale that only kicks in after you land a job that makes at least $50,000. But it turns out that the startup is attracting a lot of controversy, too. In the latest development,...