https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/fd0kct/the_truth_about_trilogy_education_coding_boot/
I was an employee of Trilogy education for over 2 years with experience inside the classroom and on the administrative side. The following is opinion mixed with my observations of how things run within the organization.
Why I’m speaking out:
What Trilogy does has bothered me for years, and IMO is morally reprehensible. I don’t have any gripes with any of the regular admin employees, mostly because they were oblivious to the problems. The executives were the worst, they either ignored problems or gave corporate answers when addressing concerns. The instructional staff on the ground were the best!.
The way Trilogy has gained market share is by partnering with dozens of elite universities in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, U.K. and Australia. Some of their partners include Harvard, Columbia, and Berkeley. To the public it looks like the university runs the boot camp. However the boot camp itself is run by trilogy. Everything that happens in the classroom and on the admin side is completely run by Trilogy.The universites literally do nothing except advertise and, give the final ok to the instructors that are interviewed and hired. All staff work for trilogy and collect a check from Trilogy. In my opinion it’s deceptive for uni’s like Harvard to be the face of a boot camp that they did not develop and have no hand in running. Students think they are taking a course put on by one of the best universities in the world. How many would actually sign up if Trilogy used its own brand name? I blame the universities more than Trilogy. They know students take the boot camp seriously in large part because of the brand recognition the university provides.
The Trilogy machine churns through instructors, teaching assistants and students. In its wake, it leaves behind jaded instructors who are unlikely to return to teach a second course and once hopeful people who’ve spent $10k for a sh---y education and a fading hope of becoming a developer. Many would be better off consuming the free resources online or subscribing to many of the low cost learning sites that charge a fraction of what Trilogy does.