Re:Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing compl...
by sarupbanskota on Thursday August 04, 2022 @02:16PM
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Indeed, you're spot on!
Our current target is professional developers and teams with learning budgets.
Here are some reasons why experienced engineers have found value (the first expensed it, the second didn't):
1. One customer manages the Redis team at an infra company, and they used CodeCrafters as a starting point to get up-to-speed on Redis internals — to be able to do their job better. We ended up getting feedback from them on areas we could dive deeper on, to be useful to platform engineers in general.
2. A Distinguished Engineer at a Fortune 500 had built a database product before, and wanted to pick up a new language (Java, if I remember right). So they did our course because they preferred the "learning by doing" approach, and existing resources felt a bit too "hello world / todo-app"-ish.
Our current target is professional developers and teams with learning budgets.
Here are some reasons why experienced engineers have found value (the first expensed it, the second didn't):
1. One customer manages the Redis team at an infra company, and they used CodeCrafters as a starting point to get up-to-speed on Redis internals — to be able to do their job better. We ended up getting feedback from them on areas we could dive deeper on, to be useful to platform engineers in general.
2. A Distinguished Engineer at a Fortune 500 had built a database product before, and wanted to pick up a new language (Java, if I remember right). So they did our course because they preferred the "learning by doing" approach, and existing resources felt a bit too "hello world / todo-app"-ish.