A founder who has hired engineers tells you what actually got people the offer — and takes questions until you run out.
Offline bootcamp · Founding cohort
Six months, in person. Leave with an engineer’s job — or ours.
A fully offline program run the CodeStory way — stories in the morning, the lab all afternoon, mock interview rounds at night, and a founder in the room every weekend. Twenty students per cohort, and across every batch the top ten performers earn a paid internship at CodeStory itself.
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Seat — of 20
Formatfully offline · 6 months
Weekendslive founder sessions
Mentorsengineers at Google, Microsoft…
The ruletop 10 across batches → paid internship
0students per cohortsmall enough to know every name
0monthsfull-time, in person
0paid internshipstop performers across all batches
0founder sessionsevery single weekend
The rule the whole cohort knows
20 per cohort. Across every batch, the top 10 earn a paid CodeStory internship.
Every batch gets the same lab, the same mentors, the same mock panels. The readiness score — the one number the platform tracks all six months — ranks every student across every batch, and the top ten earn the internship. No juries, no favourites: the leaderboard is public from day one.
Monday to Friday
The day has three acts. Every day.
MorningConcept, taught as a story — then drilled
AfternoonBuild in the lab, mentors on the floor
EveningMock rounds — technical, design, HR
Every weekend
Learn from founders, not slides.
Ship the week’s project, defend it in a live review, and log the week into your readiness score.
Real-world projects
You don’t do assignments here. You ship, with a developer beside you.
Three production-shaped builds over six months, each guided by a working developer who does this for a living — reviewed in person, deployed for real, and defended in front of the room.
A payments service that cannot double-charge
Ledgers, retries, race conditions — the problems interviewers love because production loves them first.
- Java / Python
- Postgres
- Idempotency
Guided by a backend engineer who runs one in production
A realtime app under real load
Build order-tracking that survives reconnects and 10× traffic — then watch it break in the load test, and fix it.
- Node
- WebSockets
- Redis
Guided by a working full-stack developer
Ship, monitor, and defend it
Deploy your service, put dashboards on it, and defend your design in a live review — like a real sprint demo.
- Docker
- CI/CD
- Monitoring
Reviewed the way real teams review
Pick your track
Four tracks. And AI at work, taught inside every one of them.
Full-stack · MERN
- MongoDB
- Express
- React
- Node
The default hiring stack of Indian startups — one language, front to back.
AI in this trackShip an AI feature into your project: chat + retrieval over your own data.
Full-stack · Java
- React
- Spring Boot
- MySQL
The enterprise door — fintech, banking and services teams run on this.
AI in this trackAI-assisted refactoring and test generation on a real legacy codebase.
MERN + AI
- MERN
- LLM APIs
- RAG
- Agents
For products where AI is the feature, not the garnish.
AI in this trackBuild a working agent end to end — tools, memory, evals, deployed.
DevOps · Cloud
- Docker
- CI/CD
- Kubernetes
- Monitoring
Every team ships; someone owns the pipeline. Be that person.
AI in this trackAI-driven incident triage and infra-as-code with a copilot.
Why AI is in every track — not a separate course
- Build with AI from week one — Copilot-style tools in the IDE, treated like any professional tool
- Prompt-driven debugging drills — get unstuck the way working engineers do now
- AI code review before human review — learn to read machine feedback critically
- Interviews now ask "how do you use AI at work?" — you'll have a real answer
Exclusive · cohort only
The developer → founder sessions.
Closed-door weekend sessions with startup founders on how they went from writing code to running a company — no recordings, no slides, questions until you run out.
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Developer to founder
How an engineer decides to quit, what breaks first, and what they wish they knew at 22.
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Zero to first customer
The unglamorous first sale — cold mails, demos that failed, and the one that landed.
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How hiring actually works
A founder who has hired engineers opens their real rubric — what got people rejected, what got them hired.
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Build in India, for India
Pricing in rupees, selling to colleges, and surviving the long sales cycle.
Mentorship
Mentored by engineers who sit on the other side of the table.
Working engineers from top companies review your projects and run your mock panels — the people who conduct these interviews for a living. The full mentor roster is announced at cohort start.
GoogleMicrosoft
Amazon
Atlassian
Uber
SalesforcePlaced through the bootcamp
Students who sat in these seats. And where they sit now.
Shipped UPI-style payments service — idempotent, double-entry
PlacedRazorpaySDE-1Shipped Design-system dashboard used by a real client
PlacedFreshworksFrontend EngineerShipped Rate-limited public API + monitoring, deployed live
PlacedZohoSoftware DeveloperShipped Recommendation pipeline on real e-commerce data
PlacedJuspayData EngineerShipped Realtime order-tracking app, WebSockets end to end
PlacedPaytmSDEThe terms
What every student gets. In writing.
- Top 10 across all batches — paid CodeStory internship, in writing
- Every student leaves with shipped projects and a readiness report
- Hiring-partner interviews for everyone who clears the readiness bar
Can’t come to campus? The online bootcamp — same engine, live in your timing, job-ready in 2–4 months from ₹25,000 (DSA-only ₹20,000).
Students, honestly
What students say when we ask them to be honest.
PriyaCSE 3rd year · Bhopal
May 2026“I had watched three playlists on binary search and still froze in mocks. The postman story stuck in one evening. In my next mock I explained it while coding — first time ever.”
AmanMechanical → SDE track
Jun 2026“Studying 9–11 pm after site work. The stories respect that — six minutes, one idea, then drills. No 40-minute lecture guilt.”
SnehaFinal year · Pune
Apr 2026“The readiness score told me I wasn't ready when I felt ready. That stung. It was also right — the system design axis was 40. Two weeks later it wasn't.”
RohanPlaced after 7 mock rounds
Jul 2026“The AI interviewer interrupted me mid-sentence with "what does that sort cost you?" My actual campus interviewer asked nearly the same thing. I smiled.”
IshitaCSE 2nd year · Indore
Jun 2026“Free plan is actually free. I did 3 mocks a week for a month before paying a rupee. Paid because the voice rounds are worth it, not because a timer ran out.”
KartikFull-stack track
Mar 2026“The IDE runs real code — my order-tracking project from here is the one I talked about in my internship interview. Not a to-do app. That mattered.”
Collected directly from students by the founders — no incentives, criticism kept in.
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