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The skills I learned through Pathrise are something I can see myself using for the rest of my life and adapting as the industry changes. Pathrise genuinely cares for its fellows and is patient and accommodating. The program is rigorous, but can still be completed even while working and/or in school full time. Throughout my time in program I also saw them invest in adding many new resources and constantly learning from fellows experiences. After completing the program, I feel like the type of curriculum Pathrise offers is something that should be part of every university program, but generally isn't. As a first generation immigrant, I didn't have the chance to turn to my family for advice nor did I feel like my university was able to adequately equip me with the knowledge base I needed to succeed in the job search. I also had challenges in my personal life that made the job search especially stressful. Thanks to Pathrise, I was able to successfully navigate my job search and land on an amazing opportunity despite all of those challenges. I'm genuinely grateful for my mentor and to have had the chance to be a part of the Pathrise program. I would definitely recommend!

As an SWE fellow at Pathrise, Pathrise is great if you don't have much knowledge about the interview process or a good approach to job hunting. They provide weekly career and industry sessions for 8 weeks that are aimed at maximizing your application responses and interview success, these provide great insight on different approaches/tactics on getting those application responses and how to pass them. They also provide different workshops outside of the core 8 weeks, these include weekly behavioral, pair programming, job-a-thon, and interview-overview workshops which are all beneficial (if you attend them). I will say that Pathrise's most valuable resource is their mentors since they are the ones who you'll be interacting with during all your meetings and workshops. You will be assigned industry and career mentors, you meet with your career mentor weekly and industry mentor is based on when you schedule meetings (usually once every 3-4 weeks). There are some factors to consider before joining Pathrise and some thoughts I have, as with any ISA that will be taking money from your paycheck. First is obviously if you can afford to have 18% of your pre-tax monthly income taken away for 6 months, for me this wasn't an issue as a single new graduate with no student debt. One thing that's obvious is that Pathrise won't find a job for you, they have some job opportunities to offer but most of your time at Pathrise will be learning ways to maximize your application responses/interview success and actively applying those tactics in YOUR OWN time. So there will still be a lot of applying and studying for interviews, just the approach will be different. One of their biggest downsides I could say is that I only had 2 meetings with my industry mentor (partly my fault for not scheduling more), the first one went okay but it was mainly just a mock interview. The industry mentor didn't really take any time to go over what my approach to job hunting has been so far, my background, my skills, or my resume. Once I completed the initial meeting he simply gave me a excel sheet of problems I should complete, once I completed the problems I set up a follow up to go over my resume. The feedback and advice I got were questionable since I was simply asked to change my title to appear more attractive and list skills/technologies on my resume that I haven't used by simply watching a 5-10 minute YouTube video and having a high-level of how the tech works. I was hoping to get a better overview of how the content of my resume could improve but that wasn't the case with my industry mentor, so I scheduled a meeting with a different mentor and got the help I was looking for. This last thought is more geared towards Pathrise, but try to require having industry meetings at least once every 2 weeks like it's set up with the career mentor. I gained the most out of these meetings so having a set meeting every two weeks with the industry mentor could make Pathrise even better.

I originally did the program to get a job in companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft. Pathrise does a good job of prepping for those types of interviews. They also teach how to approach the application process. The biggest plus was the mentor that they assigned you for, who provided a lot of support both mentally and emotionally. In the end, however, I got a referral from a friend and did an interview at a company that wasn't "Leetcode" style. For companies with take-home projects and system design interviews, Pathrise isn't too useful. I was already prepared for this interview because it's more similar to my experience. Later, when I got the offer, Pathrise helped me negotiate 10k higher than my given salary, which was awesome. I do feel like I could have landed this job and negotiated decently without Pathrise, though. I still had to pay the 9% fee even though I got the job without too much Pathrise helped. If i had interviewed at a different company, all the interview prep I did would have definitely been more useful. Overall not great for how I got my own job, but I would still highly recommend the program to interns (9% of internship pay is way cheaper) or people without previous job experience looking to interview at FAANG-like companies.

I joined Pathrise 2019 November cohort in my sophomore year and thanks to the program, I was able to land my first internship as a sophomore, which I at first thought was impossible. My mentor helped me (through 1-on-1 sessions) throughout the whole recruiting process - from how to talk in school career fair, express my abilities better in my resume, to how to do well in technical and behavioral interviews. The insights and knowledge I gained during the program has lasted even until now and in my junior year, I was able to score my second internship at a larger company. Everyone at Pathrise are very approachable and I really felt they genuinely wanted to help me. I can't express my gratitude enough to Pathrise!

Pathrise is made up of individuals who genuinely do care about getting their fellows the best job offers possible. Their one-on-one support gave me a chance to vent about missteps, but more importantly, support and advice for how to keep getting up and moving forward. Their workshops are very helpful, and there is really a correlation between how much you attend them and how much you are rewarded by this program in the end. At one point, I attended a workshop on onsite interviews the night before I had one, and I ended up getting the offer! If you feel like you need career advice distilled for you and you have the time to put in 10+ hours per week in ADDITION to their workshops, you will come out on top.

I joined a coding bootcamp and did not have luck finding my first software engineer job several months after I graduated from the bootcamp. Then I joined Pathrise program, which helped me improve my technical and non-technical interview skills a lot. I started to get more interviews and eventually I took one of the two job offers I got. I’ve had my first software engineer job almost one year now and I really love it. And I really appreciate Pathrise’s help!

Loved my mentor, got a lot of support from him and the program to get to my current interviewing proficiency. Happily employed now!

Although the idea is not new, but Pathrise brings the job seeking game to another level. A group of experts dedicate to help you and at least two coordinators/ adivsors meet up with you weekly to guarantee you landing a job. The workshops provide both CS knowledge and job hunting skills. A lot of eyes opening techniques, and good connections overall. I was skeptic in the beginning, but it works for me. Got several offers from FAANG and other. One thing is that you need to put your effort in, do your cold emails, do contact recruiters, be on your toes for the exercise, don't be shy from asking questions during workshop. Best of luck in this time of uncertainty, it is tougher, so this should help