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Peak xv has huge money, they just bet on many horses and at the end whosoever wins the race, Peak XV wins!

This company is trash anyway. It's just a typical  DSA prep website with nothing unique to offer . No idea why YC inducted this . There are so many  startups that are actually creating something useful instead of making courses to get into MAANG lmao. The only reason this seems to be running is because of of the credentials the founder has .

People are literally scamming their way into yc. These useless startups are getting funded only because of creds of the founders(iiit hyderabad). They are literally just selling courses on DSA and have a repository for DSA questions. 
 Kind of like jee prep business model using founders creds(they are faculty too).

Product Manager

I see lot of websites are selling these courses on dsa coding ninjas, scaler and when I saw yc page they accepted algouniversity(startup) that does the same thing selling DSA courses .how are they ...

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I see lot of websites are selling these courses on dsa coding ninjas, scaler and when I saw yc page they accepted algouniversity(startup) that does the same thing selling DSA courses .how are they getting funds in the first place 🥱

Who is funding these edtech startups

Who is funding these edtech startups- Grapevine

Hello all , 
Did anyone availed the course from bosscoder? I am a data engineer and planning to upskill myself on DSA . Any suggestions?

Bosscoder review

Data engineer

Upskilling edtech startups rn

Is it just me or lately too many instagram ads I have been seeing selling courses ranging from AI, FE, BE, Data science, SQL, from today even some courses teaching power BI and all started appearing in my feed. 

Looks like so called tech influencer are trying to cash in on the current market conditions by selling their courses.

Has anyone else seen this trend?

Everyone selling a course of their own

Computer Operator

This is the revenue of Apna College by selling those DSA courses. Reason why there are so many edtechs.

30Cr just by selling DSA courses

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

I have been on this journey for a long time now. Lots of failure comes with loads of learning. Each step or initiative I took has helped me grow as a person, the business guy (ed-tech, media space), and also in terms of technicalities (full-stack product management, hardcore hands-on into technology and I love user experience)

Ps: currently running an edtech startup in pre-seed/seed stage

Feel free to ask anything, would be happy to help even personally

5 years of failure (Entrepreneurship) AMA

Founder

I have seen a lot of these so called competitors programmers saying we are an entrepreneur and have started a company which only sells courses for DSA and they earn too big from it. Are students now a days so blind that even pay money for these just to get a job. I know job market is bad for freshers but still dont you think it is too bad.

Why are all DSA bhaiya’s & Didi’s opening a startup of DSA

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Most edtechs have been infamous for mis-selling, poor teaching , etc but are there any good startups who are doing great work?

Any good Edtechs worth joining?

A lot of people at Unacademy have already resigned, and they are unable to hire replacements from the market( for who knows what reasons). Now as we all know people who are left in the organisation are going to have a tough time. 

Leaves not being approved, longer hours at work, mental harassment in the name of being available 24*7  is becoming a day to day thing. Now they are forcing people to take up sections of business one has never dealt with and are threatening to fire them if they are denying those roles. 

People who left the organisation in 2022 are the luckiest and well a bunch of well informed individuals who saw the end of this company before anyone else could have. 

What a time to be in edtech, indeed

Major Shakeup at Unacademy

Just saw this ad from growth school io. Don’t know what “communicate like a mck consultant” even means. 

Fun fact, check the LinkedIn of the mentor. She wasn’t even a McK consultant and instead worked as research analyst. 🤦‍♂️

Why do these companies create courses like these? And who buys them??!

These ads are getting out of hand

Edtech layoffs still continuing?

Teams were asked to strictly work from home for today because of plumbing work going on in the office. Roughly 300 people were laid off in a townhall hosted by the founders.

Scaler lays off 20-25% of their workforce

How will they tell people that their courses will help get a job in a product company now?

Recruiter

Software Developer

I'm tired of people calling everything in edtech a scam, of course the companies don't help themselves by their bs marketing and unattainable placement claims and other bullshit

But I'm genuinely curious as to what grapers/ grapies / viners find to be not a scam in edtech ?

If everything in edtech is a scam, what is not ?

The camp in my opinion is not what it claims to be. People who are doing well in the camp are the ones who took matters in their own hand and started learning on their own.

Pros:

1. Practice sets were given often(There were 27 practice sets of all topics) which helped us form the practice for writing code for hooks without wasting time in thinking about the approach.

2. Community is good. MA’s are very helpful and will guide you in every situation. Taking the time out of their busy schedule. Very thankful to them.

3. Machine coding rounds were conducted. Which helped us speed up the process. 

4. Revision sessions were conducted for people who couldn’t understand the lecture taken by Tanay. These sessions were taken by Akanksha.

Cons:

1. Redux was removed from course even though it is mentioned on the website. They say that redux is not important but it is, companies ideally want their candidates to know redux.

2. Tanay simply skims through a topic, does not go in depth inside any topic. An advice which he ironically gives in his youtube videos. He ignores any advanced questions asked in the session claiming he has not covered yet. Says he will teach later and does not cover that topic later.

3. We were forbidden to discuss anything that isn’t taught yet.Stopping the flow of knowledge. That means you can’t even use the community to discuss something new because they haven’t taught it yet.

4. MA’s(Ex-neoGrads) were discouraged from answering questions about topics that weren’t taught yet. They used to host sessions on hard topics that people didn’t understand in voice chats but were discouraged to do so.

5. Didn’t even cover the dependency array in useEffect hook. He just said you will keep it empty 90% of the time. useMemo and useCallback were not even mentioned. Forget about code optimizations. Honestly, you will learn more in a 30min youtube video than in their class.

Continued in comments......

Reality of neoG bootcamp

I joined Neog hoping to learn Advanced Full stack but LOL this whole bootcamp is a scam. They are only focussed on earning money. A simple 500rs Udemy course will teach you more than this Channa mereya drama. There has been 0 percent addition in my knowledge after joining NEOG because I already know basics I wanted to learn Advanced things. 
  
 1) No Lectures on memo and callback 
 2) No Redux 
 3) DSA lol (mentioned on the website) 
 4) Backend LMAO ( mentioned on the websit) 
 5) Industry Standard Coding - why is it even mentioned on the website. 
  
  
 I have no problem with Neog Do whatever you want. But please don't lie about your course. Just Mention it on your website that you will only teach basics. I regret that hard-earned money of my parents is wasted.

Frontend Engineer

There has been internal new circulation going on that the IAS Co-founder at Unacademy is finally leaving the organisation.

He already sold his stakes in the company worth 700Cr last year and was sticking around because of the face value

However with a failure to raise capital and grow revenue, Investors have asked roman to exit.

Unacademy is truly going deep shit.

Unacademy co-founder exits 🤦💩

Program Manager

I am curious whether this is a really lucrative avenue or it sparks for them? MS folks lead in this transition afaik

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