This reminds me a lot of Ars Digita's bootcamp (http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/boot-camp, which I attended, back in the day. It's up there amongst the more interesting experiences of my life).
Except that instead of being a recruitment mechanism for the host company, it is an environment to give people skills and match them up with external companies, and in return get a referral fee.
Really a good idea; I wonder if it is scalable. They will have to figure out a way to assess coding ability objectively?
Today is actually the first time I heard of both the bootcamp and Ars Digita University (http://adiuni.org). I'm going to spend a bunch of time looking at both of them. Thanks!
Except that instead of being a recruitment mechanism for the host company, it is an environment to give people skills and match them up with external companies, and in return get a referral fee.
Really a good idea; I wonder if it is scalable. They will have to figure out a way to assess coding ability objectively?