u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
There isn't a home for those (add Pathrise, Interview Kickstart and Outco to the list).
I'm the co-founder of Formation, and we call ourselves 'interciew prep and mentorship' rather than a career accelerator.
So the discussion here tends to be from bootcamp grads later on in their careers.
The discussion in CS majors is mostly about Headstarter and Coachable because this appeal more to that demographic.
Pathrise is big with people on Visas.
Interview Kickstart in is India and bigger in those areas.
Interviewing.io and Hello Interview are more a la carte Interview Prep and more in the Leetcode sub. Formation is also mentioned in the Leetcode sub sometimes.
Very bluntly, there are all entirely different programs and audiences with a lot of overlap between various ones, but no single gome really makes sense. People tend to be looking at 2 or 3 of these and which 2 or 3 are different depending on you.
Interviewing.io and Hello Interview are a la carte mocks focusing on FAANG level for SWEs.
Interview Kickstart and Formation are more holistic interview prep focusing on FAANG level, but Formation is SWE and IK is all sorts of areas.
Pathrise is focused more on job hunt funnel and also in all areas. Formation does job hunt funnel but for SWEs.
So it gets extremely confusing if you want to shove all these things into one place and it's why there isn't a natural home imo.
I know at Formation everyone has a unique path and such a wide range of backgrounds that it's hard to even summarizing your experience in a way that applies to everyone else. Like someone who did few infra things and focused on frontend and struggled to get interviews has 20% overlap with someone who works at Google right now and has more interviews lined up already and is coming for system design practice. Nevermind the fact that we make hundreds of small changes a week Some stuff you read about Formation doesn't even make sense anymore because we remove stuff, add stuff, Formation today is very different from Formation 2 years ago and Formation 2 years from now will be very different.... why so many people pay to come back in the future and do it again when they job hunt again.