Hi everyone. I was wondering if anyone joined Interview Kickstart technical interview prep bootcamp? How was your experience? was it worth it for learning DSA?Got offer in FAANG? please share your experiences below. I am thinking to join soon. I just want to get people's opinions about that school.

Hi, I'm the co-founder of a competitor to Interview Kickstart, called Formation.dev, so obviously I'm extremely biased but if you are looking at them, you should also look at us, Outco, Scaler Academy and Pathrise. I can talk about this bucket of program more generally and where these companies fit in the bucket because I don't like talking directly about competitors on here. You should talk to people 1-1 who did a program to get their sense of the day to day and if would be a good fit for you. So this bucket is generally called "career accelerators" rather than schools or bootcamps. The programs don't really focus on being the world's more brilliant lecturers on underlying concepts but they focus on training and practice to prepare for real interviews and jobs. They tend to leverage their staff and mentors practical experience to get feedback from the people you aspire to work with. So it's a good bucket to look at if you already have employable skills and/or work experience. And not a good bucket to look at if you are considering it a replacement to a bootcamp. To try to somewhat answer your question. Formation.dev has 81% present of placements all time at top tier companies and about 25% have been just the literal five F A A N G (no MSFT, etc...) and I don't know what Interview Kickstart is but you should ask them. A quick overview to get you started in your search for information you can gather publicly: Formation.dev: no timeframe and indefinite training until you get a good job, dynamically adapting training to you, every week you get a new schedule of 3-5 person sessions with mentors chosen for what you need to work on, unlimited mocks, supports engineers with 1+ year experience. Extremely strong mentors. Interview Kickstart: fixed curriculum based on your track, 25 mock interviews, in house platform for practicing Leetcode problems, video lectures plus weekly live instruction (100 person sessions) + optional smaller TA sessions. Focused s little more on very experienced engineers and managers as well. Has a very strong presence in India (most job openings and team members are for India). Scaler Academy: newer program from InterviewBit, also focusd on the Indian market and branching out globally. It's fairly and new I don't know anything about it to be honest other than their landing page for the program, maybe someone can chime in, but you should look into it if you are looking into options. Pathrise: less focus on technical training and and more focus on job hunt funnel efficiency, dedicated career coach support to make sure your applying and getting through interviews and then with negotiation, mock interviews. Outco: a short month long program with live classes on a fixed curriculum and then unlimited guidance in the job hunt until you get a job you like. You do unlimited peer mock interviews. Relatively smaller and more intimate. Focused on both technical training and job hunting.