u/starraven wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I've gotten interviews at meta and apple, so I know they're interested. I just can't pass their interview. I wanted to know about how your approach helps your fellows? I guess.. you are saying you have a team of people who reviews applicants, does this mean you keep your fellows
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Yeah we only take on Fellows we can support, right now in this market we have more capacity, but in the past we've had a waitlist when we didn't think we could operationally provide the experience we want.
You do four primary activities:
1. Practice (doing problems by yourself and with others)
2. Benchmarking (you do a ton, probably dozens or over a hundred practice assessments and get evaluated on each one)
3. Mentor Sessions (typically 3 to 5 person group sessions where the mentor guides people through a problem and you all work together to solve it)
4. Mock interviews (1-1 run by actual engineers as real interviews but with feedback on where to improve)
You do a combination of all of this and it changes week to week based on how you are doing.
And when you get to the point that you are consistently at the FAANG-level bar, we switch to job hunt mode and we track all your applications and prepare you for upcoming interviews to the best of our ability (which is often mock interviews or practice negotiation conversations, etc...)
What we can control is the quality of the mentorship and we feel confident that if you are accepted we can get you to the point of being able to pass top tier interviews (nothing is guaranteed because you can't control the individual interviews, but we can get you to the bar).
What we can't control is how long that will take, and the job market for what real interviews you will get.