These are the stories of those who study at School 21, successfully completed an internship and stayed to work at Sberbank. I have already said that this project is the way to IT and it is extremely effective . In short, we learned how to cook Juns from scratch in a year, focusing on soft skills. You need to learn how to think like a developer - from requirements analysis to teamwork. That, in fact, in "School 21" is happening on the basis of C, where the guys in semi-combat conditions work on projects not on the basis of educational material, but look for all the information themselves. Not everyone believes that after such training, people can quickly learn a new language or framework during their internship and start working as a developer.
They can. Here are the stories of four participants in School 21 who went just that way.
“Somehow it didn't work out for me with universities”
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Please note that Maxim is talking about universities and the Course. Everyone at School 21 chooses the method that suits him best: someone listens to lectures and reads the same textbooks that are given at the university, someone takes courses on the Internet, someone just asks everyone around him and tries to deduce himself patterns. Many classical universities in all countries are approaching the introduction of new methods: project work, peer-to-peer checks, cross-specialties. But the education system is always very conservative, and all changes take years, while in School 21 we can test the hypothesis by conducting A / B testing on one stream, and introduce the innovation in the next quarter. There is a demand for a new language or technology stack - already in the same year it can become part of our program.
"Before School 21, I almost came to terms with the fact that IT is not mine"
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Lena's case is typical for half of our participants, she, like many, did not think that IT was hers. We hear this quite often. They try, watch and understand that they can become developers.
Launching the project, we understood that the level of snobbery in the domestic IT market is high and yesterday's linguist / lawyer / economist / pastry chef / musician will have to go through primary distrust, numerous tests and get a certain percentage of refusals.
“Sounds great, but we don’t believe that you can become a developer in a year”
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At School 21, Kirill was given a lot of knowledge and skills, which will greatly help him in building his future career. I suppose that after receiving strong hard and soft skills with us, he will work somewhere in the Valley, and then in five years will return to Russia. Or we'll read about him in Forbes.
"The methodology helped me organize my scattered knowledge."
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Natalia is a PR education specialist who takes a mathematical approach to her career planning. I don’t think that IT specialists by education understood in the first year exactly where they were going and what exactly they would do and planned their career as a product.
As a result
The stories of the participants in School 21 are very different. We know everything about all our participants and stay in touch with them even during the internship, so we can say for sure - it seems that we have groped exactly that educational initiative that is sorely lacking in completely different generations. It may seem to some that we are cruel in terms of dropouts, unlike the usual things, cause a wave of criticism and misunderstanding - but now we do not need to convince anyone with assumptions, as in the first year. Now there are numerical results : out of the 200 first participants who went on an internship, only two did not receive a job offer after graduation.