> Lambda School 9 no-upfront full-time months with close mentorship and teamwork, plus the alignment to help get me a job seems like a "too good to be true" option for me;
Well, you know what they say about if something sounds too good to be true.
That's a heuristic, not an argument. The fact that you can get an entire Windows-competitive OS for free, and its source code, is too good to be true, too.
Well, you know what they say about if something sounds too good to be true.