u/ShowerSufficient4165 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Just posting in case others are curious about the Flatiron SWE Work Study Apprenticeship ———- I’m most likely duplicating the subject of another thread that already exists, but I recently came across the ‘Work Study Apprenticeship, Software Engineer’ being run by Flatiron, appl
u/michaelnovati replied ·
I want to be very clear that I'm not defending this specific program, but I do think that the idea of apprenticeships is important. Perhaps not this size and shape but I'm curious how this works for people.
Back in the like medieval times people used to pay experts to teach their kids instead of school. for example, going to the local blacksmith and paying them to apprentice your kid to become a blacksmith. Which is even worse than not getting paid haha. But when school doesn't exist as a concept and that might be the alternative and people spend a very large amount of money on school.
That said if you're way more qualified and you're locked in for a really long time and you're not getting paid your market rate, that's also not healthy for the market overall long-term.
I hope I hope we figure out what that market rate is if it's the same for each person even and not a catalyst for change in education and not a way to extract money from the market.