This program does not offer garbage general career guidance. You'll learn from real software engineers with industry experience on what it takes to get hired at tech companies and excel in roles.

We start off with a career audit.

Consider this an initial snapshot of your current situation and where you are with your career. This includes going through your resume and work history, LinkedIn, portfolio, GitHub, and other social media and platforms.

I will immediately identify things to change or improve to radically increase your success.

For over a year I taught distinguished engineers and executives at IBM how to properly do social media for personal branding. I know a thing or two.

We then do an analysis of where we want to end up.

This will give you a clear picture of where you currently are, what gaps need filled in the resume, and what types of roles we should be looking out for.

In this process we will identify unique approaches, skills, and backgrounds to give ourselves a competitive advantage.

Then, we do a networking overhaul.

Turns out you've been job searching all wrong. I will teach you how to have unlimited opportunities knocking at your door. This is the exact strategy I've used to land nearly all of my roles.

Next, we skill prep.

Getting interviews is great, but landing jobs is the real goal. I help you prepare for screenings, behavioral interviews, applied coding interviews, DSA / Leetcode interviews, and system design interviews.

Lastly, we iterate.

Landing roles is a science. We first get the ball rolling so you're actively progressing on your career. Then, we continually improve by identifying the broken chains in the link.

We will also cover things like cover letters, recording-based screenings, AI interviews, red flags in the interview process, and more.

Upon joining you will immediately be added to our modules on mindset, proper learning techniques, habits, and working effectively in modern tech companies.

You'll also be added to our core curriculum, a step-by-step task list that gives you hands on learning of various software engineering topics.

However, the real value in this mentorship program is learning from the real-world experiences of others, staying accountable to your goals, and not just going through course material.

The lessons are just a really amazing bonus, but if they were the main selling point this program wouldn't be anything more than a glorified course.

Don't worry so much about the modules. Focus instead on the outcomes of going through the program. That being said...

We help you build an understanding of:

Essentials of Programming Computer science principles Building APIs Working with databases (SQL, NoSQL) Version Control (Git, GitHub) Authentication CLIs, APIs, SDKs Working with APIs and state management on the frontend Middleware and Requests Deploying Software Containerization (Docker) Software Design System Design and architecture Data Structures and Algorithms etc...

Notice how there isn't any mention of programming languages or tools. While this can be important too, we teach you core software engineering skills and principles to be an effective engineer regardless of programming language of choice.

All that being said, programming requires programming languages. We often work in Python, JS/TypeScript, and Rust. With the nature of this mentorship program you can utilize your language of choice, so some mentees use Go, Java, C#, or other languages. Learning is easiest by first becoming comfortable with the syntax of one language, but as a great dev you should not be limited by the bounds of a single language.

Our approach allows us to meet you exactly where you are technically to guide you to the promised land.

We believe one of the most important ways to learn is with hands-on experience. So yes, we build projects.

You should know how to build projects end-to-end, from first line of code all the way through to deploying and productionalizing.

As this is not a mass-produced program, we support you building custom projects through high level advising and mentoring, product direction and design decisions, and mentoring. Building your own real projects is a way to set yourself apart, so we absolutely encourage this when it makes sense.

While this mentorship program may share some common goals of bootcamps, I believe we are starkly different.

My very first success story with the mentorship program was from a finance guy who decided to chase his dream of breaking in to tech. Before hiring me, he was a bootcamp grad from one of the most popular and trusted bootcamps. Even as a good student he found himself jobless 2 years after graduation. 90 days after working with me he learned how to actually code and interview, landing his first offer in tech as a product engineer.

In my 10 years of software development and creating software training I have seen some common themes with the rise of bootcamps:

Bootcamps are often mass-scale programs with little to no customization. They overcharge and under deliver.

Bootcamps lead with content, focusing on a table of contents of things you'll learn. To me, this makes most bootcamps just a glorified course. At CodeBreakthrough we lead with custom 1:1 mentoring and small group calls for Q&A. Our learning modules are just a bonus.

Bootcamps focus on the wrong tech and skills, either too shallow, too broad, or not valuable.

Bootcamps lead students astray either deceptively or without consideration of what is truly needed in the job market. I've found that many full stack bootcamps are actually 70% frontend with 30% Node and MongoDB sprinkled in. This is why there are so many awful full stack devs out there who can't land roles. At CodeBreakthrough, we flip this. We're more like 70% backend (what actually powers and runs apps) and 30% frontend.

Bootcamps prioritize standards and copy-paste curriculums instead of teaching people to utilize their unique strengths and interests to give them an unfair advantage.

Bootcamps often fudge their success numbers by giving grueling standards to each student to even be considered in their success data.

Bootcamps measure success by measuring a few limited metrics for an entire cohort instead of customized goal setting for each person they work with.

Bootcamps are cohort based, forcing everyone to progress at the same pace. This causes individuals to either progress at a pace too slow for them, or a pace too fast for them forcing them to fall behind or completely fail out.

Bootcamps structure their programs strangely, often requiring you to give up your life for a few weeks or months to study (unreasonable for most people), or alternatively requiring you to slave through material part time for extremely long periods of time. I've even seen bootcamps marketing how long it takes their students to go through the material, as if requiring a year+ is a good thing. I've found that with the right strategies you can make life-changing progress in 90 days without sacrificing your current career or personal life.

Bootcamps waste your time. They often teach you irrelevant stuff, go at the wrong pace, take too long, or require major life changes to succeed (such as leaving a job to do a bootcamp, which is actually pretty dumb). In the CodeBreakthrough mentorship we prioritize efficient learning. Time is money, so we don't want you wasting your time anymore than we would want you to waste our time.

Bootcamps often offer "refund guarantees" with little-to-no chance of actually getting a refund if you're unhappy or don't get the result you want.

Bootcamps commonly utilize marketing gimmicks and false guarantees to give people false confidence they'll be successful, when what the mentee really needs is caring but direct, firm guidance.

Bootcamps prioritize students' feelings over students' results. My job as a mentor is to fight for you and actually help you, so If I'm not happy with your work and effort you better believe I will tell you.

Bootcamps prioritize learning specific programming languages and buzzwords over teaching people how to be software engineers and solve problems beyond their standard curriculum.

Bootcamps provide very general career guidance from career coaches. This guidance is usually bad or useless.

Bootcamps have built a bad reputation. The low quality outcomes, slow decline of quality standards, and assembly line approach to producing software engineers has lead to a collapse in the quality of software development talent. What if going through a bootcamp could actually hurt your chances of landing a role due to this reputation? Yikes.

Bootcamps are expensive (often $10K-$20K). But the true cost is not in the total price tag, it's in the awful value they provide and the false confidence they give students. So sure, go through a bootcamp if you enjoy burning cash.

Before you call me out and tell me how great a certain bootcamp is, I understand that not all bootcamps are built equal. But there are fundamental design flaws, approaches, and marketing gimmicks in many.

TLDR: No.

Extended version: Why would I want to work for free while you have no skin in the game, no pressure, or personal commitment?

This is a program where we help you help yourself. It is not a done-for-you program.

The most we can offer right now is financing options for you to enroll in the program without full paying upfront (Klarna, for example).

I've been in software now for over 10 years and have compiled all of my strategies and learnings. If I were to go back and start over, this program gives you exactly what I would do to achieve success with as little time and friction as possible.

Additionally, I connect you with other successful engineers each with their own unique background and skill set.

This program will get you results if you follow it, but I cannot force you to put in the work or force employers to grant you an offer. I am 100% confident if you learn my framework and apply it you will make massive strides in your skills and career.

I give you lifelong skills to take with you even after completing the program.

If needed, I do offer support beyond the 90 day period for career advancement or extended mentorship. This gives you the opportunity to continue working with me until you land the role you want.