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Become a high-performing software engineer and get promoted in 2026!
Do you feel underpaid and underappreciated?
Here’s a secret truth: all managers want you to be a great team player and bring more value to the business. But you focus only on technologies, productivity, and coding practices.
🤫 The worst part? Deep down you already know this secret. You just do not know what to do, because people around you are doing the same…
👉 Secure your career in the age of AI by sharpening your unique transferable skills with the Career Growth Operating System (CarGOS):
☑️ Switch from rote productivity grind to a more strategic approach using the "Trust -> Value -> Visibility -> Leverage" framework
☑️ Set up your learning and experimenting so that you deepen your expertise, even if your job tasks are dead simple
☑️ Learn to approach each type of work differently so you do not waste time and mental energy
☑️ Build high-quality work relationships to succeed together faster
☑️ Expand your opportunities by managing your Career Capital and professional narrative
🔋Checklists, templates, frameworks and how-to instructions are included
✅ Main Outcome: You will leave this course with a personalized, repeatable system for producing value and getting promoted systematically!
What you’ll learn
Start using the Career Growth Operating System (CarGOS) tailored for your specific needs:
Design and personalize your productivity system based on note-taking apps (Workflowy, Logseq, Notion, Obsidian)
Add custom checklists, SOPs and subsystems to improve your discipline without relying on willpower
Improve your ability to focus on the most meaningful things
Understand how you can create real Value and use Leverage to increase your impact
Use the "Impact Accounting" framework to have a log of evidence
Create habits to make your work and outcomes visible to others
Learn how to gain and maintain trust at work following the "Trust -> Value -> Visibility -> Leverage" framework
Use the "Manage Up" framework to accumulate trust with your manager/team lead/director
Learn how to succeed together faster via Influence and Mentoring and still get credit for what you do
Develop a habit of continuous learning without overwhelming yourself with information
Learn how to experiment and practice with high "proof of work" visibility
Track your personal achievements to better understand and convey your personal journey
Understand what forces influence your career: market and industry dynamics, business domains, personal positioning, etc.
Get insights into Software Engineer levels, seniority and credibility across the industry
Avoid believing into harmful myths about productivity, expertise and fancy technologies
Learn directly from Alex
Alex Migutsky
Self-taught Software Engineer turned Coach. Helped 400+ people with their career
Who this course is for
Software Developers who want to have a bigger impact, meaningful projects and be paid according to the value they bring without burning out.
Junior Developers who has just started in Tech and feel lost and anxious about the future and worry they will be replaced by AI
Experienced Software Engineers who are sick of being undervalued and do not understand why they can’t get promoted or find a better job
Prerequisites
Time for experiments
This course is heavy on real-world experimentation: you will need ~4 hours per week for practicing.
Job experience
Ideally, you should have at least 2 years of full-time experience (or 3 different full-time projects).
Openness to change and personal transformation
This is a coaching-heavy course. It will be difficult to integrate all ideas and habits if you feel a lot of internal resistance.
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
35 live sessions • 34 lessons • 8 projects
Week 1
Jan
13
Live: Career Basics
Tue 1/136:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)Jan
15
Live: Engineer's Career Path
Thu 1/156:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)Jan
17
Optional: Live: Career Basics Discussion
Sat 1/176:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)Optional
Jan
12
Orientation
Career Basics
Week 2
Jan
20
Live: Attention OS Structure
Tue 1/206:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)Jan
22
Live: Attention OS - Tasks, Projects & AoRs
Thu 1/226:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)Jan
24
Optional: Live: Attention OS Homework Feedback
Sat 1/246:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)Optional
Framework: Attention OS
Schedule
Live sessions
6-8 hrs / week
Live lectures - up to 2 hours each. Group feedback sessions - up to 4 hours each.
Mon, Jan 12
6:00 AM—7:00 AM (UTC)
Tue, Jan 13
6:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)
Thu, Jan 15
6:00 PM—8:00 PM (UTC)
Projects
2-4 hrs / week
The course has several projects that you will try at work and at home. Only one of them is required - it will be a cornerstone habit you will be using weekly or even daily.
Async content
2 hrs / week
Async content is optional. It dives deeper into the topics covered on lectures and provides external references and additional resources.
Success stories
A year and a half ago Alex became my mentor. During this time my salary has grown 3x, I finally found out what I want from life and what my career goals are.
Roman Ermé
Staff Security EngineerHad an amazing career coaching session with Alex. It's truly something. I've never seen anyone provide so much dense, invaluable information before. In 6 hours of classes, I filled up a large notebook. Simply the best presentation of soft skills topics in my life.
Natalia Davydova
Frontend DeveloperI've worked with Alex for a long time and his influence of me and my career is hard to measure. He helped me understand how I can scale up my influence and move beyond Senior Engineer title to something more meaningful for me. I am happy that he put all that knowledge into a course available for others!
Tim Zadorozhniy
Head of EngineeringI found our conversation about career direction and trust building within a team to be absolutely fantastic. Alex has keen insights to offer and a very realistic view of the situation on the ground at GitHub. He offered very specific actionable advice that I will take to improve as an IC. He distilled complex interpresonal issues into actionable blocks with incredible efficiency. Our coaching session was perhaps the most useful meeting i've had at GitHub.
Felipe Suero
Senior Software Engineer
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