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Code, a roadmap, an answer to a customer. Sooner or later somebody asks why you did it that way. Here you practise that answer on five projects of your own. Each one ends in a call, and on the fifth somebody from the company asks too.

nine to twelve weeks · six to nine hours a week · English at B2 · free

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Relevate three academies · enrolment open

Engineering (.NET) beginner 5 projects · 9 weeks Product Management beginner 5 projects · 9 weeks Customer Success beginner 5 projects · 12 weeks

Any of this sound like you?

Three places people arrive here from. Nothing about entry conditions - those are further down, just before you decide.

After a course

You finished a course and built its projects. Nobody outside the course has read them.

A first job

You are looking for a first job. In interviews they ask for something of your own you can show.

Beside the people doing it

You work beside developers, product managers or support. You want something of your own and to be able to answer for it.

Five things you do on every project.

Five projects. The same five steps each time, on harder work - and the fifth time a mentor sits in.

  1. You read

    The task and its rubric. You know what you will be asked before you start.

  2. You build

    In your own hours, from an empty repository.

  3. You show it

    Your cohort sees what you handed in, and you see theirs.

  4. You revise

    If it needs it, you come back with a new version and say what changed in it and why.

  5. You defend it

    Twenty-five minutes. You explain your own decisions.

step 03 · one piece of work · Relevate Engineering (.NET)

A browser window with a queue of two batches of documents, one held by the signed-in reviewer with a button to give it back, and one nobody holds with a button to take it.

line 3 of 5 · the project 3 call

What happens when somebody reaches for a batch another person holds?

Worth knowing before you join.

Same in every academy. We'd rather you find this out today than in week three.

This works if

  • You can give it two to three hours a day, three days a week - six to nine hours a week. The cohort's calendar is shared, and other people read what you hand in.
  • You'll work in English before you're comfortable in it. Sessions, reviews, chat - all of it.
  • You can read someone's unfinished work kindly, because they'll be reading yours.
  • You're 18 or older. That one we can't bend.

It won't, yet, if

  • Your next nine weeks are already full - twelve, for Customer Success. The academies run again, and you can join a later cohort instead.
  • You want to binge it in two weekends. The work opens on the cohort's calendar, so speed isn't the lever here.
  • You'd rather not have your work read at all. Each project here ends in a call where you walk someone through what you built and answer questions about it.

They came for the work.

Three people who did it, on what changed after. Two to three minutes each, in their own words.

“For me it paid off!”
Janusz · junior -> mid, hired
“Focus on essentials that will benefit the most.”
Jakub · hobby -> paying job
“A new, really cool job.”
Mateusz · stuck -> new job

Pick your academy.

Each one is built with a company, and it stays free, start to finish. On project 5 you talk your work through with somebody from that company.

run in cohorts · free to join

built with Relativity

Relevate

A legal-tech company. People from Relativity mentor this one.

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for companies

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The things people actually ask.

Short answers. Where something differs between academies, that academy's own page is the one that decides.

Is it really free?

Free to join, free start to finish. The company behind the academy pays for it, because it wants to meet people by their work.

Do I need a degree, or a portfolio?

Neither. What you need on day one is written on each academy's page - and for one of them it's nothing technical at all.

What if I fall behind?

Nothing expires. The work opens on the cohort's calendar and you catch up in your own time. If you go quiet for a week, we write to ask how it's going.

Can I go faster than the others?

Not by running ahead - the work opens for the whole cohort on one shared calendar. Between those dates, the hours are yours.

My English isn't great.

That's fine, and it's the point. Everything runs in English and you'll be using it daily - fluency is what you leave with, not what you bring.

Will I get a job out of it?

We don't promise that, and you should be wary of anyone who does. What happens here is different: on project 5 you talk your work through with somebody from the company that pays for the academy.

Does everyone get in?

Each cohort has a fixed number of places, and it closes when they are taken or on the day it starts. What it asks for is the same for everyone: six to nine hours a week, in English, and every project defended out loud.

What happens when it ends?

Your account and everything you built stay yours. Plenty of people carry on into the next academy when one opens.

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