u/WagonBashers wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Let's wait and see. It's tricky because the employed ones have less time for teaching (guessing Tinder's principal engineer won't have time to teach), but if they say "work experience", then the hope is that all or at least most of the teachers have actual experience.
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
This is also true. Almost all the mentors at Formation are industry engineers and some are great teachers and some aren't. Fortunately, we aren't a school and we don't teach anything, so being a good teacher isn't a requirement, but a mentor who is doing lightweight mentorship can be very polarizing and we have a whole PATENTED system for managing all the engineer <-> mentor relationships. It's crazy hard problem for a group of 8+ year FAANG product engineers to solve haha. I believe Codesmith has one contract product engineer that I know of and if they want industry "faculty" actually teaching as teachers in a school setting, that's even harder in my opinion.