u/dats_sum_spicy_mayo wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
That's definitely disappointing. I know they give their placement numbers, but I'd love to be able to actually hear from some people who have actually been placed with a job through them and how that experience was for them.
u/michaelnovatireplied·
They do not provide placement numbers and that's part of the problem. They provide the percentage of people with jobs that look less than six months to find their job vs more than six months, and many people mistake that for a placement rate.
They do not provide any indication of the number of people that graduate who start, or even the percentage of people placed who graduate.
Don't mistake their data for a placement rate.
u/metalreflectslime wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I have seen a lot of TripleTen students offer to give out discount codes on Reddit, but they never stick around on Reddit after 6 months after graduation from TripleTen to update whether they got a paid SWE job or not.
u/michaelnovatireplied·
Yeah many more get marked as spam automatically.
Anyone gets 20% by just going to their website.
u/dats_sum_spicy_mayo wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Well, they did give me the information that 50% of students that complete my course get hired before course completion, and 26% of them get hired within 90 days of course completion.
u/michaelnovatireplied·
That's not true.and you are correct.
The denominator is only people who got jobs.
So of 100% of people WHO GOT JOBS, 50% did so before completion, 26% within 90 days.
It's kind of a trick, but very clear in the fine print.
u/dats_sum_spicy_mayo wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
That's a shame to hear. Wish they were more transparent with that information.
u/michaelnovatireplied·
Yeah me too, every time people ask about TripleTen I have to explain this and it takes a lot of back and forth to understand.
I'm not even making any judgments if it's a good or bad program, just that this metric is severely misinterpreted by many.
u/dats_sum_spicy_mayo wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Hopefully I have a good experience with the program. Are there any other programs (free or otherwise) that you would recommend?
u/michaelnovatireplied·
I don't have any data science recommendations right now.
My overall advice is to give yourself a lot of time to find a job because the market is really tough. And second, to leverage your past career and experience the best you can to find the new job, rather than kind of hiding it if it's not data science work.