Finding talented software engineers is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Finding diverse talent is even more difficult. Until now.
Launch School’s Capstone Placement Program enables you to build a continuous pipeline of ideal software engineers with diverse backgrounds from our pool of outstanding candidates.
Remove the uncertainty of the quality and source of your hiring needs. You can now hire confidently with the Launch School Capstone Placement Program. We all know how costly the hiring process is, let alone how unnecessarily expensive it is to find out we’ve hired the wrong person in their first 30 days on the job. Capstone graduates have been at Launch School for years and we help provide assurance and greater resolution into each candidate resulting in greater confidence in your final decision.
"Launch School grads are head and shoulders above other entry level candidate pools for general web development including every code school I’ve personally encountered and most college graduates. Besides being strong engineers, the character traits that Launch School fosters is exactly what makes for great teammates because Launch School grads have the right mindset to grow into any challenge."
Michael Mentele, Software Engineer at Facebook
Capstone Placement Program
Gain early access to a pool of highly competent and diverse candidates. Every four months when a Capstone cohort hits the market, we will send you resumes of career-ready candidates. And for every candidate you want to interview, we will provide you with higher resolution into data that spans the lifetime of your candidates’ time at Launch School.
"Now that I am on the other side of the hiring table, and have interviewed a dozen candidates to date for positions across various experience levels, I can confidently say that a Launch School graduate will be more successful in the interview process than their bootcamp counterparts. I believe in Launch School's pedagogy of mastery-based learning for a long, sustainable career in software development. Since the field is constantly changing, the team at Launch School is absolutely on point with mastery of fundamentals - the things that don't change. Moreover, I believe someone who has spent years as opposed to just months to learn a skill deeply will overall make them a more appealing candidate."
Timmy Lee, Software Engineer
Why hire candidates from Launch School?
Launch School was founded by experienced software engineers for future software engineers. Launch School is an online program for learning software engineering and built for those who want to start a career in programming. We’ve spent the past decade teaching thousands of students from around the world, and over time, have refined our curriculum to be industry-leading.
We consistently produce engineers who know how to deconstruct and solve engineering problems. Unlike traditional bootcamps, Launch School’s pedagogy is based on mastery so all Launch School candidates will have mastered programming fundamentals. Your hires will not be learning the basics of software engineering on the job. Instead, they will be implementing solutions to complex problems right alongside the rest of your team. Their ability to contribute is due to mastering software engineering fundamentals in Launch School’s Core Curriculum and implementing their learnings in our Capstone, our fellowship program.
Our candidates have a structured approach to problem-solving, can work autonomously and collaboratively, as well as understand, articulate, and build solutions around complex problems.
Launch School boasts of a diverse student body. Launch School’s diverse student population is made up of career transitioners in their 60s to high school graduates, doctorates, folks with multiple degrees, software engineers looking to deepen their knowledge, stay at home moms ready to re-enter the workforce, and everyone in between.
Our graduates are the best of the best. In the learn-to-code industry, key performance metrics are defined by placement rate, length of time to hire, and salary. For context, Launch School has a 100% placement rate, our grads are employed within 90 days of completing Capstone, and they command an average of $118K base salary in all markets.
"I felt like Kelvin, a Level 2 Backend Engineer, came in with the knowledge and skills needed for the job, and spent the last few months mainly trying to deepen his understanding of the company and our codebase, to figure out how to apply those existing knowledge and skills. That’s what I’d expect from someone with experience."
Software Engineering Manager, Thought Machine, London
Capstone Projects
Fjord is an open-source framework that allows end users to receive Kafka streaming data in real-time.
Retrospect is an observability tool that allows you to record back-end activity in an easily searchable manner replacing the process of pinging servers and searching logs.
Tapestry is an open source orchestration framework for the deployment of user entity data pipelines.
Guardrail is an open source tool that generates regression tests for microservices using captured HTTP traffic.
Pioneer is a self-hosted feature flag management tool which lets users manage the rollout of new features in a deployed application.
Pilot is an open-source multi-cloud framework that provisions an internal PaaS with a workflow-agnostic build deploy and release pipeline.
Gander is an open-source solution for deploying isolated ephemeral apps based on your pull requests.
Tacklebox is an open-source serverless framework that offers webhooks as a service.
Jolt is a lightweight open-source framework that builds and deploys JAMstack applications with serverless functions.
"Within two weeks of sending out my first application, I was getting contacted so often that I had to start turning away opportunities for interviews. I had the freedom to choose where I would work and I ended up accepting an incredible offer for a Software Engineer II position from a tech startup in Manhattan."
Tannr Allard, Capstone Participant
Companies who have hired Launch School’s Capstone Graduates
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