Interested in joining Formation.dev? Here's why you shouldn't.

Hi! Thanks for sharing your feedback as well. I have some comments: 1. For you specifically, you demonstrated your DS&A are at the bar in only 3 weeks and got to move on and for someone else it might take 3 months. In other programs you get a fixed list of questions or a fixed schedule of classes. I totally accept the argument that another alternative is to not do Formation at all, but for people who are committed to doing a program, I think our model works really well at efficiently getting people to that bar and adding confidence that you are legitimately there. 2. Our mission is to support people from non traditional and underrepresented backgrounds and not all people (in fact, very few) come into Formation having interview-ready level Graphs and DP like you did. We actually get the feedback that Formation is harder than expected much more often than easier. That said, we want to adapt flawlessly to everyone's starting skill level and we can do a better job for someone like you to accelerate you even more! 3. While most people have SWE professional experience already, we accept a range of people. Some people have never done DS&A before but have 3 YOE and might start off weaker, whereas other people might ave 0 YOE and have done 1000 LC problems and start up stronger at DS&A. The whole point of Formation is that your trajectory adjusts to your skills and your pace and each of these types of engineers get a unique experience for them. The bar is not only DS&A based, but it is high and only a fraction of people who have applied have been accepted into the program. Similar to the OP, please feel free to ping me on MM and I'm happy to join your private channel to advise and brainstorm some ideas on getting more traction! You have our full team of support behind you in trying to help with the job hunt. It's rough out there and there's no magic answer, but we want to be in your corner!