Would love to hear anecdotes about past batches, how far they progressed, and maybe even know a little more about how placements have worked out from the perspective of participants and hiring companies.
We've had two batches so far. The second just ended a few weeks ago, so it's too early to report from that one, but for the first: We had six students. Four decided to look for jobs after Hacker School. Of those, one went to Photoshelter, two went to Venmo, and one went to Tumblr (another has since started working part-time at Venmo). We keep in close touch with all of them (they're friends now) and all are quite happy. (We obviously have little data so far, but my hunch is that was an abnormally high percent of a batch to be interested in a new job right after Hacker School; I expect it to lower in the future.)
I guess one way of answering that question might be knowing a little about how participants did with their project portfolios in finding new gigs that you guys did not act as referral agents for . . . ?
The guys who ended up at Venmo happened organically, so the portfolios worked well, I guess :)
We stress building code and putting it on Github because we think it's a really good way to improve, but it also has the benefit of building up a portfolio which helps a lot when it comes to getting a job. There are so many stupid proxies in hiring, and having good code online cuts through a lot of the bullshit like a knife through butter.
Regardless, this is a very cool take on the "building better hackers" stories going on and I hope you guys are wildly successful.
We've had two batches so far. The second just ended a few weeks ago, so it's too early to report from that one, but for the first: We had six students. Four decided to look for jobs after Hacker School. Of those, one went to Photoshelter, two went to Venmo, and one went to Tumblr (another has since started working part-time at Venmo). We keep in close touch with all of them (they're friends now) and all are quite happy. (We obviously have little data so far, but my hunch is that was an abnormally high percent of a batch to be interested in a new job right after Hacker School; I expect it to lower in the future.)
I guess one way of answering that question might be knowing a little about how participants did with their project portfolios in finding new gigs that you guys did not act as referral agents for . . . ?
The guys who ended up at Venmo happened organically, so the portfolios worked well, I guess :)
We stress building code and putting it on Github because we think it's a really good way to improve, but it also has the benefit of building up a portfolio which helps a lot when it comes to getting a job. There are so many stupid proxies in hiring, and having good code online cuts through a lot of the bullshit like a knife through butter.
Regardless, this is a very cool take on the "building better hackers" stories going on and I hope you guys are wildly successful.
Thanks!