u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Hi, I'm a co-founder of Formation and can give my opinions from what I've seen.
Your case is borderline and it depends on your Data Engineer experience and your goals. If one of your goals is to be a Data Engineer at Netflix or Meta (where it's a distinct job but very SWE-adjacent/related and compensated the same) and then convert internally at those companies, then I would say MAYBE. We have a handful of people in that bucket and we can help, but we don't do any data-specific interview prep. We have a handful of mentors who are Staff+ Data Engineers at FAANG but we don't have any practice materials for it.
If you strictly want to be a backend engineer, then I have more questions. If you are already getting INTERVIEWS at some solid tech companies on your own and need a boost or help preparing for the interviews then 100% yes.
If you are struggling to get interviews then I would recommend not joining. Perhaps considering month to month or 3 months to boost your technical interview skills and complement your Master's but not joining with the expectation of us magically getting you a job.
Don't get me wrong, we have a lot of innovative resume review work with senior engineers + AI tools and a good amount of sessions and practice for the spectrum of non-technical stuff, but if your raw experience isn't being received on the market, we can't fake it. We can enhance it and strategize on how to use your experience to find different angles into companies, but can't change the reality, and in this job market, nothing gets through the cracks (which is why it's so hard for coding bootcamp grads with no experience to fake their way into a job like they used to).