For Working Professionals

Switch into tech — without quitting your job.

CodeStory Pro is the evenings-and-weekends path into a software career. Animated stories, a 1-on-1 AI human-avatar tutor, and real interview prep for the company you actually want to work at.

Career fileMonth 4 of 6

The switch

TodayQA engineer · 3 yrs

TargetSDE-1 · backend

Study window9–11 pm + weekends

Path progress64%

Next milestonefirst mock panel

In progress
Same endingThe offer letter — by a longer road

A six-month path to a software offer.

Built for the working professional — accountant, mechanical engineer, banker — who knows they want out but doesn't know where to start.

Month 1–2

Foundation

Story-based DSA. Python or JavaScript, your pick. 5 hrs/week. Designed to fit around a full-time job.

  • Two-pointer & sliding window
  • Recursion & backtracking
  • Hash maps & graphs
Month 3–4

System design

Mid-level system design: rate limiters, URL shorteners, news feeds. With diagram review by senior engineers.

  • Designing for scale
  • Caching & queues
  • Database choices
Month 5–6

Mock interviews

100+ AI mock interviews with company-specific question banks. Resume rebuild. Referral network.

  • Behavioural rounds
  • Salary negotiation
  • Recruiter shortlists
WHO IT'S FOR

Three paths in. One destination.

The non-CS engineer

"I'm a mechanical engineer at TCS. I know I want to be in software, but I don't know where to start."

Outcome: Goal: SDE-1 at a product company in 6–9 months.
The career-changer

"I have a finance / accounts background. I love tech but every bootcamp wants me full-time, which I can't do."

Outcome: Goal: junior full-stack role, often remote, in 8–12 months.
The returning parent

"I took 4 years off and the world moved on. I need to relearn and prove I'm interview-ready again."

Outcome: Goal: a returnship-friendly senior role in 4–6 months.
6.4mo
Median time to first offer
₹14.8L
Median switching CTC
87%
Complete the full 6 months
5hrs/wk
Average commitment
"

I was a mechanical engineer at L&T for six years. CodeStory ran on my commute. Six months in, I had 38 mock interviews under my belt and a Razorpay offer. Nobody asked about my mechanical degree.

Karthik V.Ex-Mechanical engineer → SDE-2 at Razorpay
Make the switch.

The next six months will pass anyway.

You can either spend them stuck — or with a software offer in hand.
Start your switch
Built for evenings-and-weekends switchers

Questions, answered.

That is the design constraint: story-based DSA at about 5 hours a week, in Python or JavaScript, fitted around a full-time job. No live batches to miss, no full-time bootcamp ultimatum.

The track is built for exactly that — mechanical engineers, finance and accounts backgrounds, and people returning after a career break. Concepts are taught from the idea up, not from assumed CS coursework.

A realistic path at 5 hours a week lands a junior full-stack role, often remote, in 8–12 months — DSA first, then mid-level system design (rate limiters, URL shorteners, feeds) with diagram review, then 100+ AI mock interviews with company-specific question banks.

Yes — the career-switch track includes a resume rebuild and access to a referral network, alongside the mock-interview practice that gets you through the technical rounds.