Our training program is designed to put software engineers in mentorship groups. We normally work with your employer to provide training, but if you're an individual contributor, all hope is not lost!
Strategy 1: Pitch Your Boss
If your organization has a training budget, the best way to bring in our program is often just to pitch it to your boss. You can ask to participate as an individual and get the company to agree to reimburse you. Or you can pitch your boss on approving several people from your organization to participate with you, in which case we'll be able to customize the content to your specific challenges.
Our programs are designed for small groups, as few as five. Can you convince four other people to do training with you? If so we'll set up a custom program just for you.
If you want to organize a training for you and your friends, here are the questions we're going to ask you in our first conversation
What are your goals?
If this training is the best training you've ever received ... what's different by the end of it? What changes would you expect to see and are those changes qualitative or quantitive?
What's affordable to you?
We love working with engineers and leveling up your skill sets! We can work within many different budgets, especially if it means an opportunity to prototype new content, but ultimately we need to keep the lights on! Our trainings are a minimum of three months long, so take a minute to be honest about what you can afford a month.
Is everyone in the same timezone? Can you make the time commitment?
We've worked with engineering groups all over the world, but we need to be able to find at least one hour a week that works for everyone. We recommend that everyone in a training group is within one or two timezones of each other.
How do you learn best?
We're working to add more content to our modules for different learning styles and really value feedback here about what works best for people in terms of audio/video/live instruction/readings/etc. If we set up a training with you, we'll work hard to make sure the content matches your learning style.
Strategy 3: Let Us Match You!
Periodically we're going to be running Open Cohorts for individual engineers who want to do our training but can't make a custom program work. Join the waiting list for an upcoming batch and we'll match you to other engineers in your area and with similar goals.