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Why should you join Scaler academy?

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Through Interviewbit, an interview preparation platform that was established in 2014, we have helped over 4000 software engineers land their dream job in leading tech companies.  Gradually over time, most of these companies drove their hirings through our Platform.  Upon interacting with the folks on the platform, we came to realize that the ones getting placed had one thing in common: a mentor-like figure be it their siblings, seniors.. to guide them through the process.  That brought about the birth of the program Scaler Academy back in April 2019. The objective of  the Scaler Academy Program:  To help shape software engineers who can create a massive impact. Scaler Academy Curriculum : Structured, Industry-Relevant Curriculum [ Download PDF ] We have reverse engineered Scaler's curriculum by talking to the top product companies and understanding what skills the software industry needs the most right now and arrived at a conclusion that there are two fundamental skills required:

Why Should You Choose Scaler Academy?: Review by Scaler Harsh Yadav

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Despite no engineering degree from a tier-I college, Scaler Harsh Yadav today has a job on the product side at Delhivery. When asked to review our program & his experience with Scaler Academy, here's what he has to share, “The single most attractive thing about the course was that it promised to make us ‘industry-ready’ which is perhaps the biggest limitation in most colleges today. We had never approached problems that way before, we just had no clue about certain things. We learned how to solve many different kinds of questions, without wondering how tough this or that would be, for example, trees had always seemed tough but now, it seems like just another topic and I have Scaler Academy to thank for that. Read his complete story:  Link My mentor,  Pulkit Aggarwal , however, stuck with me and approached me from his own end after that. We sat down, and he constantly motivated me to help with how I approached interviews. If I have to thank anybody, he would be right on to

Experience with Scaler Academy : Review for Freshers

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Coming from a lower-middle-class family in Patna, Scaler Kumar Saurav has worked his way up through alot of hardships. His parents, father who owns a departmental store and mum - a homemaker worked hard to provide him the best education possible. His passion for computers started at an early age when he got introduced to HTML at school and from then on Computers instantly became his subject of interest. He used to save money on his commute by cycling daily 12-15 km to reach his IIT Jee coaching classes. Although he wanted to pursue an engineering degree at a college in Dehradun, he decided to opt for Burdhwan University which had comparatively lower fee structure. Talking about his college life, he states that there wasn't any coding culture nor any alumni with great past records. When he got introduced to Scaler Academy through some friends he was quite unsure about it but decided to pursue it. Here is what he had to share with us: "For someone like me, Scaler Aca

IIITH Alumni Startups InterviewBit and Scaler Academy – Reimagining Online Tech Education

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For Founders Anshuman and Abhimanyu, it was their love for computer science that brought them to IIITH. The entrepreneurial bug caught the duo early in 2008 while still on campus which resulted in them starting their own ventures "Daksh" - a home automation system prototype, "Campus Bhopu" - a precursor of sorts to Facebook, along with their bactchmate Jayraj Bhattacharya. Although their ventures were a success, after graduation they went on to pursue corporate jobs where Anshuman was hired by Facebook and Abhimanyu joined Fab.com. Four years into their respective jobs, the duo decided to quit in 2014, and founded InterviewBit .  With their vision of bridging the gap between university education and industry requirements which became apparent after interviewing multiple candidates in their respective companies, they launched Interviewbit in 2015. IB which Abhimanyu refers to as a "massive public library of programming problems" which is a suc