AMA: 👋 I'm Michael. Former-moderator of the sub, Facebook top performer, "the Coding Machine", junior -> principal / 2009-2017, helper of bootcamps students and grads, founder of Formation for experienced engineers preparing for interviews.

Hey, you should ping your Fellow Manager team in your channel to ask. It depends on your contract, your progress, your activity, etc... We're try to be as flexible as possible and if you are in good faith participating and job hunting we are more likely to extend. If you want to pause to do something in between its important to communicate it to the team so we have a record. If you disappear and we try to contact you over numerous months and you don't respond, and then come back saying you did projects for three months, that's not a good reason to extend. Our job is to be your coach/mentor in the process, and there is trust both ways, so 'good faith' both ways is critical to that relationship.