u/slickvic33 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Wasn't the founder of nucamp doing an AMA last week. I'd add a question about this practice
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
That was Turing School. Nucamp is Ludo and Nucamp fairly transparently doesn't do job outcomes because they want to focus on satisfaction instead. Which I think is a good idea because you are paying for teachers and curriculum development and not a job so why judge it by if you get a job or not? That said, asking for reviews is sadly a common practice.... have you noticed how Codesmith has like 600 Course Report reviews where they pay them to sponsor, and wayyyy fewer reviews on other sites.... and similar things with other programs: where their online reviews are skewed across different sources.
I wrote a paper in undergrad about online reviews that wone a best paper award at CHI and since then I don't trust online reviews haha.