u/OllieTabooga wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Does Formation cover skills like cicd and devops? I've gone through multiple interviews and it seems like my weakness is in deployment and I'm interested in learning from and talking with engineers who have experience doing this. Is there a curriculum available that I can go over
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
We don't cover CICD or DevOps and we also don't have mentors I would say who could do mocks overing those topics specifically. We have some mentors which an do iOS and Android mocks, so while we don't cover those skills either day to day, there's at least some practice available.
There's no fixed curriculum and you'll do different things at different paces. But the overall areas we cover are:
1. CS fundamentals/DS&A, up to all the topics needed for the hardest interviews (including DP, advanced graphs). How much you do will vary by your goals but you can go all the way up to the hardest of the hard.
2. System design. This is full stack system design preparing for top tier company system design interviews.
3. Technical Behavioral. Preparing your resume, pitch and practice hiring manager interview and things like the Amazon Bar Raiser
4. Minor areas: frontend (practice and mocks), software engineering (more for people with almost no SWE experience, practice fixing issues in a codebase). OOP (this is a stepping stone for SD but also it's own interview topic)
This might sound a little like we're interview focused and to some degree we are, but the structure will be focused on practice, group sessions, and benchmarking until your skills are solid and then starts focusing on job hunting and mock interviews in preparation for the job.
I would say that we are currently ideal for full stack top tier preparation and that is our goal.
People who apply and focus on smaller companies with more practical interview processes still find Formation useful but it's less focused on preparing for those interviews and you'll have to complement it with outside prep.
Finally on curriculum: our stance is that there is so much free material out there, we aren't trying to sell you magical content for 10X the cost... we expect you to use a number of free and cheap learning resources and our job is to help you figure out what to do and when and benchmark you against the bar you need to be at for top tier interviews - so that the process is faster, less stressful, and you are getting better advice for navigating top tier interview processes than Blind or online forums.