San Francisco Coding School Has Novel Tuition Plan

Government Technology: Patrick Thompson, 25, was working minimum-wage jobs at Costco and the post office when he stumbled across a YouTube video about a nine-month online coding school that didn’t charge tuition. Instead, Lambda School students would pay 17% of their income over two years, capped at $30,000.

“It sounded really good but also like a scam, maybe too good to be true,” said the San Jose resident, a single dad of two. But after researching Lambda, it seemed legitimate, so he enrolled last summer.

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