Twice per year we will select candidates from across India. They will be expected to move to Delhi for 3 months, during which we will work intensively with them to make them in the best possible shape to be employed directly by top international tech companies as full time remote software engineers.

At the end of each cycle, we will invite a selected group of companies to attend a virtual Demo Day. Pesto engineers will be able to showcase open source projects that they have built during training and compete for their dream job offers.

Pesto doesn’t end on Demo Day. After engineers are placed, we will continue to help them by providing financing for modern equipment and a developer community where they can continue learn from each other.

Screening

We start with an intensive screening process where we test for a minimum required understanding of computer science fundamentals, english language proficiency and an intense eagerness to learn.

Training

If selected, students will go through our boot camp where they will learn modern software engineering best practices. Our boot camp is intense and is designed to push applicants to not just learn a set of javascript frameworks but to learn how to learn, giving each student the tools they will need to always stay at the bleeding edge of technology.

Demo Day

Students that pass out of the boot camp will be invited to participate in a virtual demo day where they will showcase their skills to our hiring partners. This gives students the unique opportunity to be discovered by the international tech community where they will be able to earn compensation packages similar to their American or European peers.

Starting Work

To make the on-boarding process as seamless as possible for both students and our partners, we take care of the routine administrative tasks required when bringing on a new remote teammate. We can provide services such as standard contract templates, cross currency invoicing, remote employee management guides and daily task reports.

Alumni

After graduation, Pesto Alumni become part of a powerful network where engineers can continue learn from each other. We also provide financing options to help alumni buy any equipment that they will need to succeed at their new job such as MacBooks, development devices, etc.

We believe in equality of opportunity. Therefore we want every student to have equal access to our program. We do not charge anything up front. Instead we take a percentage of each students future income. This puts us on the same same team as our students. The better they do, the better we do.

• Schedule: 12 weeks, Mon - Fri, 9pm to 6am IST
• Location: New Delhi
• Next Batch: Starting in late 2018

Before starting training, every student should review our open source curriculum. This goes over all of the different topics that we will cover during the course. It is meant to be a brief overview to introduce students to each topic. Students are expected to review this fully before their first day.

For the first four weeks we will go over all of the pre-training curriculum in depth. This will be extremely fast paced as it is expected that students are at least somewhat familiar with each topic before showing up.

Students will be working in teams designing, building and shipping a real full stack application. This exposes them to real world examples of the type of work that will be expected of them after graduation.

Throughout the course of the project we introduce new design constraints so that every student is exposed to every core concept regardless of what each team wants to build.

Examples constraints include: deploying the project with continuous integration, adding unit and integration tests, using a mongo database, adding user authentication and safely storing credentials

The project will be open source and will serve as a portfolio piece to show potential hiring partners.

We have reached out to the maintainers of a variety of open source projects and put together a list of projects that need student help. Each student will choose one of these projects. They will then spend their last four weeks making meaningful contributions to their chosen project guided by Pesto teachers and the projects maintainers.