Cohort 19 starts 14 September. Twelve of thirty seats left. Apply now

Cohort 19 · Indiranagar, Bengaluru

Sixteen weeks. Forty-five hours a week. One portfolio you would actually show someone.

Full-time, in-person, and deliberately hard. We publish every placement number, including the ones we are not proud of.

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Cohorts 14–18, audited and published

81%

Placed within 6 months

9.4L

Median first salary

142

Graduates to date

11

Withdrew mid-course

The sixteen weeks

  1. Weeks 1–3

    Foundations that usually get skipped

    The command line, git as a mental model rather than four memorised commands, HTTP end to end, and enough data structures to reason about cost.

  2. Weeks 4–6

    JavaScript and TypeScript, properly

    Closures, the event loop, async failure modes, and types as design tools. You write a small promise library, because reading about promises is not the same thing.

  3. Weeks 7–9

    Back end and data

    Node and Postgres. Schema design, indexes, transactions, and the afternoon where everyone discovers N+1 queries the hard way.

  4. Weeks 10–12

    Front end at production scale

    React with real state problems, accessibility from the first commit, and performance budgets you have to defend in review.

  5. Weeks 13–15

    Capstone in a team of four

    A brief from a partner company, a real deadline, and code review from a working senior engineer twice a week.

  6. Week 16

    Interviews, not "career support"

    System-design practice, salary negotiation, and eight mock interviews with engineers who do not work here.

A day starts at 9:15 with a code review

Not a stand-up. Someone puts a pull request on the projector and the room reviews it, including the instructor’s. It is uncomfortable in week one and the single most useful habit you leave with.

A group reviewing code on a large screen

Afternoons are pairing, not lecture

Two people, one keyboard, rotating every forty minutes. Instructors circulate rather than present. Total lecture time across sixteen weeks is under thirty hours.

Two people pair programming at one desk

Fridays are demo and repair

Ship whatever the week produced to a room of thirty, then spend the afternoon fixing what the demo exposed. Nobody has ever demoed something that worked perfectly.

A student demoing a project to a room

Graduates now working at

The last cohort, honestly

Cohort 11 finished in March. We publish these whether or not they flatter us.

Completed the programme38 of 44
In a developer role within six months29 of 38

Counted from the 38 who finished, not the 44 who started.

Still looking at the six-month mark6 of 38

We keep coaching these people at no cost until they land.

Tuition

Three ways to pay. The income share is capped and expires — read the agreement before you sign anything, here or anywhere.

Upfront

₹3,20,000one payment

  • ₹40,000 saving
  • Refundable in full to end of week 2
  • Laptop loan included
  • Alumni code review for 2 years
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Income share

12%of salary, 24 months

  • Pay nothing until you earn ₹6L
  • Total capped at ₹4,50,000
  • Expires after 4 years regardless
  • Full agreement published on request
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Graduates, one year on

★★★★★ 4.6 from 88 reviews reviews on Course Report
★★★★★
I had a commerce degree and a support-desk job. Fourteen months later I am on the platform team at a payments company. The capstone got me the interview; the code reviews got me through it.
Sneha Ravikumar · Cohort 15
★★★★
Genuinely brutal pace and I nearly quit in week nine. What I will say is that no employer has ever caught me out on fundamentals since.
Arjun Pillai · Cohort 16
★★★★★
They talked me out of the income-share plan and into instalments because it was cheaper for my situation. That is the moment I decided to trust them.
Fatima Sheikh · Cohort 17

Honest answers

Can I keep my job during the course?

No. It is forty-five contact hours a week plus homework, in person. People who have tried have failed the course and kept the debt, which is the worst of both.

Do I need to know how to code already?

You need to have finished a free introductory course and be able to explain a loop and a function in the interview. Complete beginners are welcome; complete beginners who have not tried are not.

What happens if I do not get a job?

On the income share you simply pay nothing. On upfront or instalments there is no refund after week four — we would rather say that here than in the small print.

Is there a remote option?

No. Pairing and live code review are the whole method and both degrade badly online. If you cannot be in Indiranagar five days a week, this is not the right course.

Applications for cohort 19 close 29 August

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