PathriseReviews of pathrise.com

The Pathrise mentors provide great support and guidance on how to optimize your profile to be noticed by employers and how to prepare for interviews. The workshops are a great help to level up your coding skills. You do have to put in time and effort and be proactive to get the complete benefits from the program.

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Pathrise solves a very real problem new developers and professionals in general face when trying to enter the job market for the first time, which is not really knowing what's going on. The feedback recruiters give from mock behavioral and technical interviews go a long way to improve confidence when job searching. It also offers insight into what direction and steps to take, things to work on, etc. Metrics let us know if we're improving or not, and by how much.

I am so thankful to have stumbled upon Pathrise. It takes time and effort but boy is it WORTH IT in the end! I would have never landed the job I just got if I had tried on my own. The mentors know what they are talking about, willing to walk with you every step of the way, and keep you motivated.

I got great help from Pathrise mentors. They really help you keep yourself motivated and also help you develop the best strategy for your job search. What they provide you may not be something completely new to you, but I still found it very helpful to have someone move together with me throughout the job search processes.

I tried the 2 week trial period for Pathrise and truly believe Pathrise is a great program. I dropped out because I got an offer during the trial. The career mentors are super knowledgeable and helpful, there are plenty of workshops to level up both your coding and soft skills, and you have the opportunity to connect with folks who are navigating the same challenges of landing a job. If you truly utilize all the resources this program has to offer, you will definitely be set up for interview success.

My experience was overall very positive. I had a great career coach (I'm already forgetting the terminology, but basically, the person who meets with you weekly, directs you on what overview goals to achieve and how to achieve them), and a great career mentor, and they both let me know I can continue to reach out to them even though I've gotten my full-time career. I did the pair programming sessions with other people at first, which was good experience for explaining what you're doing during a coding interview instead of just coding silently without feedback with your interviewer. I was able to use that practice to my advantage during an interview. After a few weeks of doing the pair programming sessions with partners, I did them alone just to get the hang of coding challenges, because I typically don't find random coding challenges to be very beneficial to me as an actual software engineer who wants to solve problems and get real work done. I think they had 3 different pair programming sessions throughout the week, each with different difficulty levels. The engineering / software portion of this program is heavily geared towards large companies that have the well known "coding interview". Some of their advice didn't apply to me well or at all, because the type of job I was looking for was more security-focused and less "I'm going to be the best algorithm developer ever." I especially was irked by advice that suggested using "conventional coding interview variable names" instead of descriptive variable names just because it's an interview. At the job I got, which is wonderful, during my coding interview, I ignored the advice from Pathrise and instead used descriptive variable names, and that along with all my other coding behaviors/practices/habits, my interviewers actually chuckled, I asked what was so funny, and they said "Wow, it's just that that's production-quality code." So, the going against the Pathrise advice was beneficial to me in that case. It seems like they do just about as well as can be done with an online system. You have to put your work into the program to get benefits out of it. You get out what you put in. It's not a magical program that just gives you a job. And if you're already a pro at getting a job, then Pathrise isn't for you. Pathrise can help you with the steps in getting a job, doing each step well, and getting advice when you're confused or stuck on certain things. They help really well with certain aspects, like how to cold email and explaining how doing that in *addition* to submitting your resume to the giant ATS systems and *how* to coordinate your cold email to synergize with your needle in their haystack to give yourself a boost to rise up to the top. I was quite impressed with the advice. In addition to that, they give you access to some tools that make the job search process easier, like some database that helps you search for people at companies, if I remember correctly, and also to something that makes it easier to send out cold emails. They explain how to write lots of cold emails in a way that is simultaneously impactful and time-saving. (hint: don't spend 10-30 minutes on each individual cold email.) Some of the sessions everyone always only goes through once, like the main workshop series. I think there are new groups of fellows every 1-2 weeks, so even if you attend the pair programming sessions every week, there will always be new people who've never been there before, so whoever is running the session often has to explain the ideas behind the pair programming sessions each time. I could tell that a lot of the people who were in the program really needed it. There's a mental shift that has to happen to become really successful from getting a job, and it's not just blindly following Pathrise's advice. Be an individual, have a brand, show it in everything you do - that's what will make you stand out, and what will get you into a position that actually fits you, instead of some generic "coding" job where no one actually cares. I extremely strongly positioned myself as passionate about cybersecurity, and it shined through in everything I did, and eventually led to me getting this wonderful job at a cybersecurity start-up company. That wasn't Pathrise; that was me. Pathrise was excellent at listening to me and my interests/passions, and because of that, they paired me up with the career mentor who had the most interest/experience in cybersecurity-related work. In turn, my career mentor was able to ask some of their connections about which cybersecurity certificate I was able to pursue, so I got some extra benefits because of them matching me up with a career mentor with similar interests. I'm reaching my review character limit, so I'll cut it off here.

Honestly, I don't know what I would have done without Pathrise. With so much information floating around (reviews, etc), it's one of those things you have to just jump in and really put in the work. If you don't put in the work, no one will do it for you. You can't expect something from nothing. I've found a great career from this program (remote btw) and it's all due to the consistency of Pathrise. I put in the elbow grease, but I had a team of experts help me every step of the way. Ben, Sterling, Polina, Julian and so many more experts were rooting for me and providing the feedback/tips I know that I needed. Everyone will tell you to not pay for help with a job, but I will say that I 100% would not be in the position I'm in without Pathrise and the guidance I received. I was able to fully market myself to the best of my abilities because of the assistance I was provided. I was able to project myself in ways that I didn't know that I could do because I didn't have the knowledge (and wouldn't even if I spent 1,000 hours on Google). If you want to talk more in-depth about my experience and how much I recommend it, I'd be more than willing to chat with you. Just send me a message and I'll tell you everything I can.