Companies I can confirm that have hired individuals directly from a data science training program: Tesla Motors, Facebook, Square, Yammer, Tagged, Change.org, Twitter, Airbnb, Netflix, Groupon, YouTube, Apple, Adobe, Palantir
Absolutely! Here at Zipfian Academy, a little more than 1/3 of our hiring partners are smaller data-driven startups. In general, they're working on really interesting problems and look for full-stack data scientists with strong coding skills. If you'd like to hear more, feel free to drop me a line at 'ryan' at 'zipfianacademy.com'.
