Once students have completed their core track of Instruction, they will attend Lambda School Labs. We develop our curriculum with hiring manager expectations in mind. Based on hiring manager input for each program, the Labs team designs projects for students to demonstrate their ability to ideate, plan, collaborate, and deliver value for organizations that will hire them.
Labs is an experiential learning program that places learners in the environment of a high-performing software engineering organization. The primary goal of Labs is to provide the experience of working on large products, within a complex organization, with a real stakeholder and an ever-changing set of new and unique challenges.
Labs gives learners:
Everything we do in Labs is meant to give learners the experience of working in a real job.
Labs is an essential differentiator for Lambda School learners—it empowers them to talk about real experience during the interview process. Labs also enables learners to become highly productive employees much faster, as the program teaches them how to contribute in a fast-moving and often chaotic working environment.
Labs is all about the cross-functional team.
In the real world, a development team can have designers, mobile developers, data scientists, marketers, project managers, front-end web developers and back-end web developers. Cross-functional team members can often have conflicting priorities and objectives. To prepare learners for this environment, they will be grouped in cross-functional teams to collaborate together toward a shared product goal.