PathriseReviews of pathrise.com

During my 2-week trial, I had the opportunity to meet with established mentors in my chosen field who gave me so much clarity in a short period of time. The recorded workshops and job search advice were also top-notch. As a consultant looking to expand into tech, I was told traditional tech employment (e.g., product management) was probably not my best bet. With most of my mentors fearing for their jobs with major tech downsizing, I am at peace with this advice. While the program was not a match for my goals, Pathrise would be a great fit for someone looking for a traditional career path in tech. I will still recommend the program for someone who knows this is the path they're walking.

The resources from the platform are very comprehensive. From how to optimize the CV, job application tricks, and reach out to employers by cold mail to negotiating the offer. Although that information is available on the Internet, here the platform compiles the most condensed and efficient materials that are ready to use. The assigned career coach is very knowledgeable and supportive and engages the job-hunting process closely, giving great advice promptly when needed. This is especially important when you are confused during the process. The HR and industry mentors are very helpful when preparing for the interview. It is great that the mentor helped to create a study plan to ace the interview. HR mentors help to sharpen the answer to behavior questions. Regular mocking interviews help a lot when there is an actual interview coming up suddenly with a tight hiring timeline. The mindset coaching helps a lot when I feel depressed and low energy. The coaches are very professional in guiding me toward positive thinking and keeping the focus on preparing for my job search. The pair programming is something I feel Pathrise can improve further. Since the participants join with different coding languages and skills, the discussions sometimes are not efficient as expected. It would be great if there can be 1 on 1 with a mentor for a coding mocking interview.

Industry mentors gave me a helpful and detailed guidance. My career mentor encouraged me all the time. My resume, LinkedIn profile, interview preparations improved so much. I learned a lot about job searching. I wanted to learn more but the offer came too early.

The mentors at Pathrise are great! They are vey focused on helping the fellows get the most out of the program. After months of applying for hundreds of jobs with very little success, the mentors helped me land a role in my chosen field, making more than I was making at my last job. Prior to Pathrise I had even tried paying for resume services with no significant improvement in my success rate. Pathrise helped me improve my resume, bolstered my confidence, and helped me with interview preparation and practice. After spending months feeling like I was spinning my wheels, I wish I had found Pathrise sooner! Overall it was a very positive experience, and I can't say enough about how wonderful the mentors were.

Career Mentor's are helpful and caring throughout your process working with Pathrise. I believe some of the language used in the contract aspect is a bit deceptive, guaranteeing placement and an increase in salary specifically. They really hype up how amazing them doing applications on your behalf can be, yet a large amount of the applications they do for you are not great fits as they outsource these applications to other companies (in and outside the US), in my experience their applications resulted in a 0.005% application to interview rate.

This company is very weird. I have 17 years of commercial experience in the IT industry as a UNIX / Linux system administrator, Java developer, project manager, and Cloud Site Reliability Engineer. I applied for the IT & Cybersecurity track. I was rejected. I asked for an explanation. I kid you not somebody responded with: “Thank you for reaching out and sharing a copy of your resume. We greatly appreciate you applying to the Pathrise program. Unfortunately, after a second review of your application, it does not appear that we are able to move you forward in our program at this time. Happy to provide a more detailed explanation. Since we are a career advancement service and unable to offer technical training or educational certifications, we do require either a recent, relevant degree or 1-year of full-time, current work experience for the track in which you are applying. Under our IT and Cybersecurity track, for example, we would require at least a year experience in a role such as Help Desk Support, System Administrator, Application Support, Cloud Engineer, Cybersecurity, IT Support, or similar.” I thought having more than years of commercial experience being a UNIX / Linux system administrator and cloud site reliability engineer would be considered as “relevant” experience. Apparently not! I responded and asked for an explanation further only to be ghosted by this person at Pathrise. I was completely baffled, confounded, and dumbfounded by her explanation. Update on April 29: One of the founders Kevin had reached out to me directly and tried to address the problem. I am surprised that somebody from the company actually read the comment and reached out to address my concern. Although no plausible explanation was provided as to why my initial application was rejected, I appreciate that Kevin took steps to rectify the issue.

My Career Mentor (Janelle) and Industry mentors (Sarah, EJ, Chastity, Ilana, Peter, Bishoy) I had a chance to work with were very knowledgeable and compassionate people I was initially very stressed about being unable to get to an interview stage and then faced hurdles of multiple rejections, jobs not matching my expectations,etc. These mentors helped me stay positive through the job search journey and the industry mentors spent hours preparing me for potential interviews. phew ! :) My situation was unique, but my mentor tried every possible method to make it work for me.

My Career Mentor Leah is what made this experience so rewarding. She was my biggest cheerleader and always gave me wonderful advice in what I should do in my job search.