There is no collaboration between VA and the streaming services. This is a rogue third party service that is not sanctioned by any of the streaming service providers.
MasteryConnect | Software Engineer | Salt Lake City, UT
MasteryConnect began when an experienced educator was inspired to focus on mastery learning and formative assessment, but was frustrated by a lack of time and tools. He wanted a way to get out of tracking mastery in spreadsheets, speed up the time to grade and provide feedback to students, and provide a way to share great formative assessments with educators around the country.
At MasteryConnect, we believe that through 21st century technology and tools, obstacles to mastery learning are removed. We believe in the power of the common standards and it’s ability to unleash the collective knowledge of teachers all across the country. We believe in data and teachers driving the conversation around assessment and what students are learning. We believe all students can learn.
Job Description -
We're looking for a mid-level and/or senior level engineer.
Important To Us -
Good experience with ROR (Ruby On Rails) desired - but if you have PHP or Python skills and want to learn Rails, let’s talk
Experience with other frameworks either in ruby or some other language
Excitement and experience around JavaScript and JS frameworks
Up-to-date with current technology trends
Experience with the entire stack of a web application
*nix experience and familiarity with shells
Everything from database to html5 and css3 goodness
Self starter - has started something on their own, like: a framework a company a product an open source project
Have an opinion on the preferred code editor
Some experience with cross platform mobile frameworks (like phonegap) a plus
AWS (amazon web services) experience a plus
The DNA to be part of a startup company culture and work in a startup environment
Went to a 3 month code school. Had multiple, full-time job offers after the program was done. Took one of them. My company has gone back and hired 5 more people from the same program.
Worked out well for me, and I learned much more attending in person than I would have just doing the online stuff (many of which I had pounded through before going to the bootcamp)
I'm sorry that your wife had a bad experience, but your statement "that's the right way of starting [your] career in computer science" is ridiculous. There are many paths my friend.
This is too bad. As a graduate of a similar bootcamp program who is currently working as a Jr. Developer it makes me really sad to see this kind of interference from the Government. As with everything else in life, situations that sound "too good to be true" usually are, and consumers need to exercise due diligence before giving people money they aren't comfortable losing.
I hope the schools are able to work this out because my Bootcamp absolutely changed my life.
Are you planning on verifying that people leaving reviews have first hand experience with a school? Do you allow people affiliated with the school to respond to the reviews in order to share their side of the story?
As someone who has participated in one of the bootcamps you list on your site I can tell you that your data will likely be skewed by a vocal minority, and a request to "open the books" and provide the data on graduates is a faulty proposition.
When I was researching which bootcamp I would attend, figures about job placement after graduation were extremely important to me and my decision process. However, having attended one of these programs and having worked closely with the other students in my group, I started to understand the flaws in that statistic as a measure of the program. Really, all that it measures is how selective a program is of the students it accepts. Programs that choose the top <1% of applicants are obviously going to place more people into better jobs because they are starting with smarter, more experienced people to begin with.
The type of person that is successful in these style of learning environments has a few very specific personality traits. They are extremely motivated, and they have the ability to learn quickly. No bootcamp program can force a lazy person to learn how to code. Just like no company wants to hire a lazy coder. It is not the fault of the program, the instructors, or the curriculum.
Obviously, there are some programs that are more thorough than others, but I really found that one of the most valuable things I gained from my program was access to the network of the founders. The people they invited to hiring day and as mentors were awesome, and forming those relationships on my own probably would have been harder than learning how to code.
TL;DR If nobody from a program gets hired, then there is a problem with the program. However, if several people do get hired, the others have no business crying "This is a scam!"