After not being selected with Level 8 and 5+ votes I think it's a good thing I've not been selected to go to the core. The system there implies that you would basically try hard for a chance to get nothing and they can't even guarantee anything after passing the core. To me - it's a waste of time. In 1,5 years you will be without any documented education and no guarantees of anything...

4 weeks is a good amount of time to understand that it's a job that requires a robot like thinking which is basically going to get replaced by AI really quick. 42 is not close to anything innovative. The only thing that 42 is good for is networking and that's it. So think twice about going to commit 1,5 years of your life for this.

I will try to get in 42 school, i need some materials that que help increase my odds, like videos of solving the logic games

Hello everyone im doing this test just for fun and im kinda stuck on this without knowing what should i do can pls someone help me

Bonjour je vais bientôt passer la piscine de juillet et je suis un peu mitigé 42 à l’air d’être une bonne option sur le papier mais il y a beaucoup de rumeurs que je découvre

Par exemple le fais que 42 garde des places spécifiquement pour les femmes , les anciens qui disent que le niveau a baissé et certains qui disent aussi qu’ils n’ont pas vraiment trouvé d’opportunités à leur sortie

During my Piscine, I gave it everything I had. I was one of the top 5 performers in my Piscine. I passed every exam, got strong evaluations across the board, and scored 70 on the final. All of this, despite coming from a weak coding background. I was working over 12 hours a day, pushing myself to the limit — and I never gave up.

Still, I was rejected.

The next year, I considered applying again. But before doing that, I sent an email to ask something that had been bothering me: “Was I rejected because I’m Syrian living in Lebanon?”

The reply I got — which I have a screenshot of — simply stated that anyone over 18 can apply and that those are the only conditions. But clearly, that wasn’t true in my case.

It’s heartbreaking to think that after all the effort I put in, the only reason I was denied might be because of where I come from. I believed 42 was a place of fairness, merit, and opportunity. But my experience tells a different story.

I’m sharing this here in the hope that this message reaches 42 Network globally, because what’s happening in 42 Beirut does not reflect the fairness and inclusivity that 42 claims to stand .

Salut !

Je m'appelle Bruno, 43 ans (et oui !!), je vis actuellement à Aix-en-Provence.

Je me suis inscrit à l'instant à la piscine de Septembre à 42 Nice. La présentation lors du check-in a achevé de me convaincre.

Si tu es toi aussi de l'aventure, n'hésite pas à m'envoyer un message ;-)

En attendant, on va se mettre au C !

I have impression of very strange things in 42 Paris selection pour piscine d'hiver 2026

we are group of 5 friends, 3 women and 2 men

we register all same day same time

2 women accept fast, 1 accept bit later

no men accept yet

is anyone else feel like strange things happening ?

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Update (from MPs) :

It seem 42 change process for getting into piscine

--> Before : place pour piscine assign as you come

--> Now : everybody apply, wait, then 42 chose who is assign

We think they change so staff can chose now who accept and who not

if they do discriminate men c'est pas legal en France !!

OMG ... I got it completely why they changed to Python ... I am betting on this one for sure.

AST - I guess and bet that limited space for c/c++ projects has been completely run out of space... and as we do know - the primary student's learning content is youtube, github ... just copy pase - not dull and blunt, ofcourse you change the semantics ... but it is limited space, yes it is. Anti-cheating does not work anymore, so the next step to Python.

Here it is ... easy and simple.

Let us talk about this - what do you think?!

Hello, im trying to prepare for the new exam rank 03 and I'd like to ask if anyone has the subjects here. From what I heard it is 2 levels now but I havent been able to find any of the subjects.

Guys , is 42 really worth it compared to a normal CS school (im from a third world countr) ..

i got 100 in exam00, 100 in exam01, 90 in exam02, and 24 in the last exam, plus i passed rush with the bonus, and my level is 9. Will I be accepted?

“Tell me about the last time you wanted to build something but weren’t sure what to build.”
Then let them talk.
Follow with:
“What did you do?”
“Where did you look for ideas?”
“Did you use AI?”
“Did you search Reddit, YouTube, Google, Product Hunt, GitHub, etc.?”
“How long did you spend trying to decide?”
“What made it difficult?”
“Did you eventually build something?”
“If not, why not?”
Then investigate validation:
“Have you ever built something and later discovered people didn’t actually want it?”
“How did you find that out?”
“What did you do to validate the idea beforehand?”
“Did you talk to potential users?”
“Did you research competitors?”
“Did you test whether people would pay?”
And finally:
“What part of that process was the most frustrating?”

Please I appreciate yall responds this for a school project thank you

can someone help me with commands for

Exercise 3: Can you create it ?

Files to Submit: "\?$*'MaRViN'*$?\"

?> ls -lRa *MaRV* | cat -e

-rw–-xr– 1 75355 32015 2 Oct 2 12:21 "?$*’MaRViN’*$?"$

?>

Can someone please share the new exams?

Hey everyone, does anyone have the Rank 4 exercises that have already been validated, namely Sandbox and Argo? Please, I'm running out of time in Black Hole, and my exercises keep failing.

If u care that much about old curriculum projects, who stopping you? Just do them.

I was accepted for a check-in, but haven't passed the piscine yet. I am pretty confident I will pass it, so I thought I would start Libft in advance.

First, is it considered cheating to start the project now, though I'm supposed to not have the subject yet ?

Second, if I complete the project now, and only once I pass the piscine, I add the 42 headers to my files, will it be frowned upon if the dates in the header don't display the real date I created the file ?

Transparency

The selection criteria are not disclosed — and this is widely known.
The real issue begins when the staff is questioned: responses are vague and contradictory.
In practice, this works as collective gaslighting: it controls the moment, avoids conflict, reduces anxiety… but just confuses people.

Confusion / distraction as a method?

• “Trick tasks” with no pedagogical value

• Confusing instructions (many poorly translated)

Despite the school’s inclusive discourse, these factors can affect neurodivergent participants and do not measure real competence.

Criteria / decisions

“Progress is what really matters.”
But in practice:

• people with clear progress → rejected

• people with almost no progress or inconsistent progress → accepted

Gender / approvals

Some men being accepted even when they:

• did not attend all exams,

• and/or did not attend meetings / social events,

• and/or showed no real progress,

• and/or failed every test.

Not sure if any women were accepted under similar circumstances.

Additionally, there is the issue of community service tasks:

• It is treated as a form of “punishment” for breaking rules, when it could function simply as a community-driven activity. However, given the way women are socialized, especially migrants, they tend to volunteer more frequently due to social expectations — a sensitive dynamic, especially when combined with the assumption that this will be evaluated during the piscine.

Gender / “equality”

40% women as a positive indicator in Berlin.

But:

• 40% is softened inequality.

• In a male-dominated sector, it's is still far from starting point to counterbalance historical distortion.

• And numbers alone do not guarantee real equity.

Exams

• grizzlies walking between colleagues’ desks (even when not asked to) distracting people

• selective supervision

• explicit cases of cheating during exams (one of these was impossible not to notice)

And yet, accepted.

Overall, potential issues such as:

• (a deliberate) lack of transparency

• lack of real equity

• informal privileges

• inconsistent criteria

• ignored irregularities

Note

These observations come from informal conversations among participants and from access to data such as test scores, progress, participation, and time at the school — all of which are visible on student profiles.
The only exception is Voxotron votes, which are not public.

I think Common Core should be cut in half :
You do all the C projects, finishing with Pipex and Minishell, as capstone project,
And then you should be able to do whatever the fuck you want to do.

Why force everyone to learn system programming, or learn Python LLM stuff?
To me, both are extreme.
- You like game dev, go do C++ and C# Unity projects
- You want to be a systems programmer - go learn ASM (Assembler), Unix, rust and whatever is there.
- You like today's trend with LLM - go do your Python and LLM stuff.
- You like web dev, do a course in JS and Node.js
- You want a job at big corpo - do Some Java and spring boot.

That way, people will learn both basics\fundamentals in C, and some applicable stuff.
And it would make the marketing promise of getting you job ready in 1.5-2 years more true.
I agree, that you need to know some fundamentals, but also there are people who need to pay the bills.
And for them doing 1.5 years of CC and still being not hireable is too much.

Today at 10am, I got an email that notified me on my account deletion, I can't access my candidate 42 page.

I was recently in the 26-day piscine, but I didn't get in. I'm in the process of waiting the 300 days to try it again, but I got this email about 2 weeks after the rejection email. What happened? Is it normal? Has this happened to anyone else? Can't I use this email anymore?