Launch HN: Turing College (YC W21) – Online data science school

My name is Lukas. My co-founders (Benas and Tomas) and I are building Turing College ( https://www.turingcollege.com ), a career school that ensures that students are work-ready on day one of their new position. We’re currently focusing on data science skills. When the three of us entered university, we were taken back by the outdated teaching methods. We still smile when we remember learning Excel via a whiteboard! While studying, we were also running an IT and education consulting business that had an accounting return rate (ARR) of $0.6M and was expanding fast. This quickly taught us that the way developers are educated is not aligned with the hiring and onboarding processes of the tech companies looking to hire them. We saw this issue from both sides of the hiring process. As students, we were learning subjects that didn’t prepare us practically to deliver results for companies from day one. As employers, we were frustrated when hiring students based only on their educati