"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead
We (navgurukul.org) run a one-year fully funded residential course for students from underrepresented communities to learn Software Engineering - get jobs (vocation!) and work towards the betterment of the surrounding communities (this is what we need, really - more problem solvers!). We have launched an online course and currently working with 30,000+ learners. We have a capacity of 850 students in our residential centres (2 in Bangalore, 1 in Pune, 1 in Dharamshala, 1 in Delhi and 1 in Agartala), and are in process of adding another 600 seats through four different states by December 2022.
So far we have placed around 290+ students in various companies including Mindtree, Thoughtworks, Unacademy, etc. and have a 100% placement rate for our students.
Our campuses are completely self-governed spaces that are totally managed by the students. Cooking food, making products from locally grown bamboo, and learning to code. The students at NavGurukul lead everything on their own.
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Being a small team our work requires us to sport multiple hats. There will be times when you would be tired and hate the chaos that a small org like ours could have. But at most others you would dream, you would be hooked and you would be building stuff, for real.
We would respect you, treat your growth seriously, and ensure that you have ownership of your work. We would listen to your rants, your thoughts, your ideas. Our culture places a lot of emphasis on vulnerability, honesty and meaning.
The hiring process would involve you filling up a few details in our careers page against the role that you want to apply, a few calls with the leadership team and a task towards the end.