Pathrise is a career accelerator that helps you build real-world experience, pairs you with an industry leading mentor, teaches you how to crush your interviews, and guarantees you a job or internship.
Pathrise (pathrise.com) has 397 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 4.4 out of 5.
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pathrise.com
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HR & Recruiting
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San Francisco
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2026
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As someone that lives abroad and is currently an entrepreneur looking at a second foray into 9-5 life, Pathrise has been an immense support system. They have a clear, innovative approach with systems and processes that make applying to roles efficient.
I commend my mentor, Dominic for his patience and for the attention given to me (even with my busy work and life schedule). I would strongly recommend Pathrise to anyone in the job market. I am still on the journey and enjoying every bit of it.
AJ
A.J. W.
Selected Customer Success Mgr
Selected Customer Success Mgr. track in Pathrise, an accelerator job training platform for nearly 7 months, with my pros / cons and the reason why I gave Pathrise a 1-star rating.
Pros: You can network and schedule 1:1 sessions with people in your designated industry. Every week, there’s a distributed job list of positions to review and apply. If you need resume help, this is also available.
Cons: Do not expect to land a role in what you studied for! If you land any role, they immediately start the payment process - even if they didn’t help you find, negotiate and secure that position. Tuition rates are not the same for all students, some are offered discounts you may not be aware of within the same industry track as you. Jobs lists distributed are from the week or WEEKS prior - imagine looking for a position and you’re not applying within the first 3 days since post. This greatly increases your chances for a rejected application. I advise you to job search in addition to using their list.
Response from PathriseJan 25, 2024
Hello A.J.W.! My name is Natalie and I'm Head of Customer Operations at Pathrise. Firstly, thank you for your review. While it's a bummer to read that someone was disappointed with our service, I also feel a ton of gratitude that it's been brought to our attention and we have the opporutnity to address it. I'll followup with an email to you but I wanted to address a couple of things publicly, since we rely on our reviews in part to let prospective fellows know what working with us is like.
Firstly, I do want to address that there are different program tiers and tuition amounts. We also do offer folks discounts to enroll for many reasons: they let us know their financial situation would prohibit them from enrolling so we offer them a scholarship, they had a less-than-perfect experience in Trial and we want to address that (just like when you go to a restaurant, e.g., and your entree arrives less-than-perfect, you may get a discount on your bill or a free dessert!), and more. This is in no way meant to be a secret nor is it in any way unethical from our perspective.
Next, I want to address two things: the role you secured and the job lists. Since you stopped working with us in April of 2023, we have updated our program offerings quite a bit. Because you were also working with us at the Essentials plan, we weren't sourcing or applying to jobs for you. It is absolutely advised -- and required -- at all plan levels that fellows job search while at Pathrise: we're here to support, guide, and provide resources and a framework to increase your chances of receiving an offer.
Finally, regarding your offer, specifically. In our contract, it is noted that we consider placement as a job that meets our income threshold. We also don't require that folks accept an offer that's not optimal for them and again, at the tier you were working with us at, we don't offer negotiation support baked into the plan offerings. With that being said, and to come back to an earlier point, we're here to discuss this with you and work on a resolution together. I'm sorry you felt you had to go to Trustpilot to get a response instead of reaching out to our support team. I don't see any emails from you outlining your dissatisfaction in our [email protected] inbox but I'll be anxious to hear if you attempted to reach out elsewhere and weren't replied to. Again, I'll be in touch today! I'm looking forward to connecting and making this right for you!
JP
Joshua P.
SWE Pathrise pro
I signed up for Pathrise on their Software Engineering track a few months ago, after being caught in the swath of tech layoffs. From the beginning, my experience with the staff and mentors has been massively helpful in my job search and in my career development.
Since you don't pay unless you get a job offer, the value proposition is, to me, a no-brainer. Cannot say enough good things about them.
MB
Melissa B.
I can’t recommend Pathrise enough
I can’t recommend Pathrise enough. After the 2 week trial I had every confidence that their team would help me land a great position (and they did!) but what I didn’t anticipate was how much support they would provide and how valuable that would be. The fact that they have so many wonderful industry professionals ready to help and offer guidance when needed, gave me so much more confidence. Also, their business model is incredible and a win/win for everyone since they don’t get paid unless you get an offer in 1 year. Dominic B was my mentor and he was stellar. Everyone else was, as well.
TS
Trevor S.
My experience with Pathrise was a great…
My experience with Pathrise was a great and informative one. They provided me with great info to assist me with my resume as well as great interview tips.
Thanks Pathrise.
MI
Mik
Their contract goes against of what they promise, be aware of what you sign!
I was interested in the Product Management program and jumped on a call with one of the Admissions Consultants. They assured me that they would be able to support me in a PM career and not consider any jobs that I would obtain through my consulting work that is not PM related. Towards the end of the call the AC promted me to sign the contract for the trial while on Zoom. This felt a bit suspicious, but I went ahead and started reading the contract. I quickly realized that the wording of the contract goes against of what the Admissions Consultant assured me of. I asked them to amend it so it would say what we discussed. They said they will ask their supervisor for approval. The supervisor got back to me to ask for a time to jump on a call. Once I provided the times they never got back to me and provided no other help or communication.
Response from PathriseNov 14, 2023
1/5/24 update: Hi Mik! I hope your New Year was great. I just sent you a third outreach from my personal email, on the same thread where I initially reached out and where our CEO and co-founder checked in, as well. While I'm bummed that you won't give us a chance to have dialogue, I respect your decision not to engage. On our end, we'll continue to improve our operations to ensure other folks don't have similar experiences -- and we'll wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
Hello Mik! My name is Natalie and I'm the Head of Customer Operations here at Pathrise. I want to start by saying how sorry I am that you had this type of experience. I've requested that you share your email address via Trustpilot, if you don't mind. I'd love a chance to connect and understand more about the conflicting information that was shared as well as identify who exactly you were speaking with, to ensure someone doesn't have a similar experience in the future! I hope you'll give us the benefit of the doubt from the standpoint that we are a small business made up of folks who care and want to do their absolute best. While intention is secondary to impact, when our actions fall short, we're always ready to come correct and do what we have to do to ensure everyone who interacts with us leaves the interaction feeling heard, supported, and validated. I really look forward to chatting and I hope you'll share your email with me!
DS
Donn S.
Mentors and coaching are great
Mentors and coaching are great. Actually conversion from amount of applications to interviews is lower than expected and taking longer than planned to get any offers
DG
Damon G.
Pathrise will help land a new job
Pathrise was able to help build a resume and profile to help find a new position, coaching team provided mindset and interview skills to assist in the process.
