u/cooking-chef-2000 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Could you provide an estimated number of how many engineers have signed up in 2025 only? On edge of getting a formation subscription if there aren't many engineers. I mainly want to be in an ecosystem. I think it's very much possible to self learn and prepare, but I enjoy learn
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Yeah sure for starting in 2025: rough non-binding, reasonable estimates:
About \~250 people starting in 2025 so far, about 15% or so leave in the trial week.
We had fairly robust starts in January, then tariff threats in particular caused a lot hesitation, and then May -> June things picked back up again.
I would estimate about 5 to 10 people start in a given week?
The number of people in Formation isn't super relevant because the nature of the program scales up and down dynamically - including all of the mentorship.
So this sounds insane but your session matching is BETTER the MORE people there are.
Our team works on the practice content, benchmarks, etc... but the mentors themselves are contractors and we have a very complex algorithms to manage all of this dynamically without much humans.
So more people, better level matching, better time matching, etc...
All of our full time humans are either directly supporting you (you have a team of 4 humans covering working with you every day) OR working on the platform itself.
But anyways, let me know if you have more questions.