Career advice from people doing the work.
Tutorials, hiring playbooks and product notes — written by our mentors and team.
How to land your first frontend role in 2026
A no-fluff guide to building the portfolio and applying the way that gets recruiter replies. Lessons from 200+ mentees who got hired this year.
The 7 SQL mistakes I see every week as a mentor
Indexes you forgot, joins that surprise you, and CTEs people overuse. A practical fix-it list with examples.
Design systems without the burnout
Most teams build design systems wrong and then blame Figma. Here's the cheap version that actually scales.
Managing up: the senior engineer's superpower
How to make your manager's job easier, get the projects you want, and accelerate your promotion.
Why we rebuilt our mentor-matching algorithm
A look behind the curtain at how we pair mentors and mentees, and what we learned in the process.
A discovery playbook PMs actually use
Six artefacts that turn fuzzy ideas into shippable specs. Steal them.
Breaking into cloud engineering without a CS degree
The exact projects, certs and outreach plan that worked for our cohort of self-taught engineers.
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