Where Ambitious Software Engineers upgrade their career.

In the Upgrade Accelerator, get personal mentorship from top recruiters, software engineers and career coaches, to land your next $120K+ engineering role.

THE OUTLIER APPROACH

1. Career Mentorship

The first step in the Upgrade Accelerator is to define your goals. Together with your career coach, you will set a clear 3 month goal about where you want to go next in your career. We help you to understand the job market, where you stand against other engineers and what kind of effort is required to land a job offer at different tech companies such as startups versus Big Tech.

This means weekly check-ins, group coaching and on-demand support, leading to 3x more outcomes.

2. Technical Mentorship

Most of your time in the Upgrade Accelerator, is about getting really really good at interviews. You'll be trained by Senior & Staff Software Engineers on every interview type you can encounter - including Data Systems & Algorithms, System Design and Behavioral.

This means 1-3 mock interviews every week, leading to 80% increase in interview preparedness in 3 weeks.

This level of interview prep mentorship leads to job offers in 2-3 months - simply because you're confidence skyrockets after technical mentorship before and during the interview preparation process. to land your next $120K+ engineering role.

LEARN LINKEDIN NETWORKING SKILLS

BUILD TECHNICAL READINESS SKILLS

CREATE STRONG INTERVIEW PIPELINE

3. Designed for Software Engineers

The biggest difference Upgrade Accelerator and other job search services, coaches or programs is this: We are designed exclusively for software engineers.

Our Career Coaches, Recruiters, and Senior and Staff Engineers personalize your experience so you can succeed at reaching your career goals 3x faster. We have helped over 100 software engineers in the past 5 years upgrade their career to land job offers in top tech companies across startups, big tech and everything in between.

HELPED 100 + ENGINEERS LAND OFFERS

AVG TIME TO JOB OFFER 3-4 MONTHS

AVG JOB OFFER SALARY $120-150K+

MEET THE ENGINEERS WE HELPED

Scott landed an offer for $140K in Healthtech

Madison signed $120K job offer at Airtable

Chris got $150K an offer from Shopify

Cassie landed a $160K offer at Paypal

Michael landed a $140K offer at CVS

Redoan landed a $140K offer at Google

Dino landed a $100K offer from Visa

Surya received a $140K offer from Netapp

Hannah got $100K offer at a NYC Startup

Vaishnavi landed a $80K offer at Braze

Qinjain landed a $130K offer at State Street

Saketh landed a $140K offer at Microsoft

Paul landed a $170K offer as Sr. SWE

Chandler got a $120K offer from Regal Cinemas

Mingxing got $140K offer at Morgan Stanley

MEET OUR MENTORS

Raahil, Lead Technical Mentor

Sr. Engineer @ Citibank

Madison, Lead Behavioral Mentor

Support Engineer @ Airtable

Anna, Lead Career Mentor

Founder @ Outlier Mentors

Deepika, Recruiter

Sr. Recruiter, ex-Amazon

Surya, DSA Expert

Sr. Engineer @ Netapp

Rohit, System Designs Expert

Sr. Engineer @ ex- Square

Garhett, Behavioral Mentor

AI Engineer @ OC Tanner

Vidit, Systems Design Mentor

Staff Engineer @ Linkedin

Alex, DSA Expert

Staff Engineer @ ex-Google

FREE MONTHLY WORKSHOP

RSVP to a workshop all about landing interviews using Linkedin Networking.

Learn how to land 3x more interviews without more applications, spending less time applying, more time actually interviewing.

A message from the founder

I spent 15 years in tech, in product, watching talented engineers get passed over.

Not because they weren't good.
Because they were doing the job search the old way....
Apply, wait, hope.

So I started
Outlier Mentors.

Referrals matter more than ever.
LinkedIn networking isn't optional anymore.
... and you still have to walk into a Leetcode round, a systems design interview, a behavioral round, and prove you belong there.

β†’ Branding.
β†’ Storytelling.
β†’ Technical readiness.
The whole program.

100+ software engineers hired.
Some in 3x the speed they expected.
Most people have never heard of us.
Over the next 5 years, I want to help 500 more.

Career Mentorship for Ambitious Software Engineers

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We do not make earnings claims, efforts claims, or claims that our training will make you any money. All material is intellectual property and protected by copyright. Any duplication, reproduction, or distribution is strictly prohibited. Results vary, are not typical, and rely on individual effort, time, and skill, as well as unknown conditions and other factors. We do not measure earnings or financial performance. Further, some customers do not continue with the program, do not apply what they learn, or do attempt to apply what they learn but nonetheless have difficulty in making a job search successful for them.