This sounds pretty cool!
1. Are most of the people CS grads? Bootcamp grads?
2. How many people don't work out? Like anecdotally, is it the ticket to success or is the goal to get some experience with a job as a nice to have outcome.
3. Do you teach stuff too or is primarily trying to connect you with companies?
4. If there is a teaching phase, how many people go from that phase to getting an internship first?
5. Do you plan on scaling it or are going to ensure you only take people for whom you think you can support getting internships?
6. The model sounds similar to Ada, but a bit different, but how would you compare yourself?
u/jakezegil wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
1. A lot of them are CS Grads, but we've also had Junior engs, QA engs, self-taught programmers, and ex-analysts.
2. It's been a week since graduation (Sep 1st) and 9 / 11 have gotten into / are currently in late stage interviews, 5 / 11 looking for a job have received SWE offer
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Awesome sounds really cool and I like the approach of trying to get people a foot in the door and it's definitely something most bootcamps are missing.
I'm happy to hear you don't want to grow super fast to keep the quality consistent.
Thanks for sharing open answers.
u/jakezegil wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
1. A lot of them are CS Grads, but we've also had Junior engs, QA engs, self-taught programmers, and ex-analysts.
2. It's been a week since graduation (Sep 1st) and 9 / 11 have gotten into / are currently in late stage interviews, 5 / 11 looking for a job have received SWE offer
u/michaelnovatireplied·
I did a little deep dive into Fractal, I think you would get a long very with u/sheriffderek, you two should connect!
u/Acceptable-Peak-6375 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
do you hire felons / people with criminal backgrounds.
u/michaelnovatireplied·
Look into The Last Mile. Primarily focused on training residents and helping with re-entry, but might have support for job hunting too.