u/sourcingnoob89 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Wow, what an intense read. Most (not all) bootcamps employ several similar strategies as them.
u/michaelnovatireplied·
It's a bit unfortunate that some bootcamps employ similar strategies but try to legitimize them even more now. Lambda School was first and then others learned from their mistakes.
1. CIRR as a marketing tool to legitimize results. But still lack of transparency - schools have a full year of data on H1 2023 grads and CIRR schools won't let us know that data until March 2025 and continue to tout 2022 numbers.
2. Hiring back alumni as "senior software engineers" and legitimizing those roles proactively as a prestigious position instead of a job you take because you couldn't get a SWE job yet after graduating.
3. Calling non-SWE roles highly desirable "modern engineering" roles instead of backup options for not getting SWE jobs.
u/starraven wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I signed an ISA that said tech at a different bootcamp. Do you mean specifically Lambda?
u/michaelnovatireplied·
That was the dream yeah, but when people get tech-adjacent jobs it gets blurry and subjective. The job title alone isn't enough, and a bank (who manages the ISA) isn't qualified to decide either. So you end up with a bunch of upset people trying to make a case their jobs were not "SWE-related".
I don't think any modern ISA has this term because modern ISAs are structured more like loans and often called such.
But ISAs still don't have any universal format so it's ultimately a contract between two people and you have to treat it as such.