Fast track to Senior Engineer
12 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Save years of trial and error and become a highly-demanded Senior Engineer in a fraction of time!⏱
Fast track to Senior Engineer
12 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Save years of trial and error and become a highly-demanded Senior Engineer in a fraction of time!⏱
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Course overview
Learn and use 3 critical habits and 5 frameworks that boost your career growth
This course does not teach technology or programming.
It teaches "soft skills", habits and frameworks that you need to excel at any organization.
After finishing the course you will have a growth system in place that will help you get systemically promoted.
✅ It's enough to write working code and solve problems to get paid and be "a real programmer".
⛔️ It's not enough to write great code and solve hard problems to grow your engineering career.
💡 Start doing what most Software Developers unknowingly ignore to grow much faster.
🤖 Yes, we will use AI tools. No, I will not teach you how to code with AI.
Who is this course for
01
Software Developers who want to have a bigger impact, meaningful projects and be paid according to the value they bring without burning out.
02
Junior Developers who has just started in Tech and feel lost and anxious about the future.
03
Experienced Software Engineers who are sick of being undervalued and do not understand why they can’t get promoted or find a better job
04
If you do not yet have a mentor who can explain all nooks and cranies of career growth to you, this course is a must!
Prerequisites
Time for experiments
This course is heavy on real-world experimentation: you will need ~4 hours per week for practicing.
Job experience
You should have at least 2 years of full-time experience. Alternatively, you took part in 3 different full-time projects.
Key Outcomes
Clearly understand the details of building a career in Tech 💡
You will understand what factors influence your position in Tech:
- Market and industry dynamics
- Software Engineering Levels
- What affects your Salary and Compensation
- How to measure your seniority outside a single company
- Harmful myths
- And many more..
Start using Attention OS - a personal system for managing projects, information and your attention
You will design and start using a proven system that will propel you to the Senior title faster than majority of your colleagues.
⏱ Students self-reported up to 20 hours per week saved on info management overhead.
Lay the groundwork for lifelong critial habits that most high-performing engineers use
You will identify the new actions that move you toward your defined goals and decide which current habits to stop.
👉 81% of students reported changing their daily habits in 6 months after the course.
Implement two frameworks (Impact Accounting & Managing Up) that will boost your visibility so that you do not miss promotions
Understand how to manage expectations (both yours and expectations of your employer/client) and how to be confident that you are "a real engineer".
🆙 All students who have implemented both frameworks (62%) reported improved relationships with their manager/team lead.
Internalize the importance of Value, Leverage and Impact and integrate these notions into your thinking habits
You will know how to objectively measure your current level based on real world achievements and market feedback.
You will build transferable skills you can use across roles and pivots for accelerating your promotions.
Get help, advice and actionable feedback 📣
Receive actionable feedback and timely answers throughout the course. At every step.
You will test ideas in real settings, review outcomes, and iterate using input from the coach, your cohort, and measurable results.
What’s included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Alex Migutsky in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
24 live sessions • 34 lessons • 8 projects
Week 1
Dec
3
Orientation, Career Basics & Attention OS Basics
Dec
4
Learning & Practicing Frameworks
Career Basics
Dec
3
Live 1
Week 2
Dec
10
Week 1 Project Review & Feedback
Dec
11
Impact Accounting & ManageUp frameworks
Framework: Attention OS
Dec
6
Live 2
Dec
8
Live 3
Dec
10
Live 4
Week 3
Dec
17
Week 2 Project Review & Feedback
Dec
18
Growth Planning & Graduation
Cornerstone Habit 0: Using Attention OS
Dec
13
Live 5
Dec
15
Live 6
Dec
17
Live 7
Week 4
Habit 1: Lifetime Learning
Dec
20
Live 8
Dec
22
Live 9
Dec
24
Live 10
Week 5
Habit 2: Practicing & Experimentation
Dec
27
Live 11
Dec
29
Live 12
Week 6
Tools for Learning & Practicing
Jan
3
Live 13
Jan
5
Live 14
Jan
7
Live 15
Week 7
Value, Leverage & Impact
Jan
10
Live 16
Jan
12
Live 17
Jan
14
Live 18
Week 8
Framework: Impact Accounting
Week 9
Framework: ManageUp
Week 10
Growth Planning
Week 11
High-Performance Habits
Week 12
Wrapping Up
What students are saying
Course schedule
8 hours weekly for 12 weeks
Tuesday
19:00 - 21:00 CET
Live lecture for the current module
Thursday
19:00 - 21:00 CET
Live lecture for the current module
Saturday
19:00 - 21:00 CET
Optional live dicussion of the module or homework feedback
Weekly project
Practice is mixed into your workday
Every week you will have some practical assignment to finish during your work hours or in your free time.
All assignments are parts of bigger course projects.
Frequently Asked Questions
Meet your instructor
Alex Migutsky
Mental Architect. High-Performance Coach. Ex-Microsoft, Ex-GitHub
⏱ It took me 6 years to get from a no-name self-taught Junior Developer in Belarus to a Senior Engineer at Microsoft in Germany.
I will share all secrets I know with you so that you can succeed faster 🚀
🔧 I've been building software since 2010.
👨🏻🔬 I research career growth and individual performance for 10+ years.
🏢 Worked in startups, outsourcing companies and Big Tech and co-founded startups.
💪 Personally mentored, coached and consulted 400+ developers on technology, relocation, performance and career optimization.
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Fast track to Senior Engineer
Learning is better with cohorts
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you
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