Mentorship: how to find it, and how to get value from it.

One to one coaching with a co-founder of DesignGurus.io and the creator of the Grokking series, now at Amazon after building and scaling distributed systems and data storage infrastructure at Meta, Microsoft and Hulu. Covers system design, data structures and algorithms, interview strategy and career direction.

Coding and system design coaching with a co-founder of DesignGurus.io, now at Amazon, who was a Senior Development Lead on Azure Storage at Microsoft and a Software Engineer Lead at Meta. Strongest on distributed systems, scalable architecture and interview strategy.

A roster of coaches working at Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Snap and Cloudflare, bookable for coding, system design or general career coaching. Pick the coach whose background matches the loop you are facing.

Live mock interviews with senior engineers, covering coding, system design or a target company format, each ending in a structured debrief. Rehearsal under real conditions is the part of preparation people skip.

A free overview of how to plan a preparation timeline, what to study in what order and how the rounds fit together. Read it before deciding what to buy or who to book.

Sessions on the decision you have been going back and forth on: which offer, whether to switch, what to learn next, or a resume and LinkedIn review. Includes a short session priced for final year students and new graduates.

Free mentorship sessions with volunteer mentors across engineering, design and product, bookable straight from open calendars. The price makes it the obvious first thing to try.

Practice exercises in over seventy languages where a volunteer mentor reviews your solution and discusses how to improve it. Free code review from a human is genuinely rare.

Long term paid mentorship on a monthly subscription, with mentors from named companies and ongoing contact between calls. Structured for a relationship over months rather than a single session.

On demand help from experienced developers, billed by the minute, for when you are genuinely stuck on a specific technical problem rather than seeking career advice. Different from mentorship and occasionally exactly what you need.

A tool for running your own mentorship: bookable session types, payments, scheduling and a single link to share. Useful when the questions in your inbox have outgrown what you can answer for free.

A long running podcast answering listener questions about the non technical side of engineering: bad managers, awkward teammates, promotions, quitting and negotiating. The closest thing to a free mentor answering the questions you cannot ask at work.

A large curated list of questions for one to one meetings, grouped by purpose, useful from either side of the table. Removes the awkward silence that ruins most of these conversations.

A short, widely cited essay on the three kinds of one to one and how to tell which one is happening. Fifteen minutes, and it permanently changes how you run and attend these meetings.

A career book built around the idea of learning in public, covering how to build a reputation, find mentors and sponsors, and progress from junior to senior. The most practical treatment of the networking side written for engineers.

An open community for questions about careers, learning paths and final year projects, for people who would rather talk than read. Free, and often faster than waiting for a session.

A university course on the mechanics of coaching someone: asking rather than telling, giving feedback that lands, and setting goals people actually pursue. Free to audit, and useful whether or not you manage anyone.