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Fellowship Program

Four months to senior engineer.

The Engagetal Fellowship is a four-month part-time program that turns driven developers into the top 1% of engineers companies hire through our platform. Pay upfront, or sign an Income Share Agreement and only pay once we place you in a qualifying role.

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4 months
Part-time program, fully remote, with one-on-one mentorship and weekly live sessions — designed to fit around your current schedule.
Top 1%
Graduates enter the Engagetal hiring pool — matched directly with companies looking for their stack.
₹0 upfront
Choose the ISA and pay nothing until we place you and you earn above ₹5 LPA. Capped at ₹4 lakhs total.
What it is

Not a bootcamp. A fellowship.

Bootcamps teach you syntax. Fellowships build engineers. Over four months, part-time, you'll work on real codebases, get reviewed by senior engineers, design systems from scratch, and finish with a portfolio that recruiters don't need to squint at.

Month 1

Engineering fundamentals

Data structures, algorithms, system design primitives. You'll move from intermediate to fluent in two languages and understand how computers actually work.

Month 1 — 2

Production web systems

Build a full-stack product from scratch. APIs, databases, auth, caching, queues, observability. Deploy to real infrastructure and handle real traffic.

Month 2 — 3

System design at scale

Design systems for millions of users. Study outages and postmortems from real companies. Design reviews with senior engineers every week.

Month 3

AI-native engineering

Retrieval, embeddings, agents, evals. Build production-grade LLM applications that don't hallucinate. Ship one real AI product.

Month 3 — 4

Open-source contributions

Contribute to real open-source projects with senior maintainers. Your first merged PR is your best interview credential.

Month 4

Placement & matching

Mock interviews, offer negotiation, system design drills. Entry to the Engagetal hiring pool and direct intros to companies looking for your stack.

Investment

Pay upfront, or pay only when you earn.

The Fellowship is ₹2,00,000 + GST. You choose how you pay for it.

Option A

Pay upfront

₹2,00,000+ GST

Pay the full Fellowship fee before the program starts. Simple, no strings attached, and works out cheaper than the ISA if you're hired quickly.

  • One-time payment before cohort start
  • No future income commitments
  • Full access to all Fellowship benefits, placement, and alumni network
  • Split into two instalments on request
GST applied per prevailing rate
Option B · Most popular

Income Share Agreement

₹0upfront

Join the Fellowship at zero cost. Once we place you in salaried or contract employment and you earn above ₹5 LPA, you pay 10% of your gross monthly income (+ 18% GST) for up to 24 months, capped at ₹4 lakhs total. If you find a job entirely on your own, no ISA applies.

  • Zero payment during the Fellowship
  • 10% of gross monthly income + 18% GST, only when your CTC is above ₹5 LPA from a Company-facilitated placement
  • 24-month payment term. That's the hard stop — no extensions.
  • Maximum total repayment: ₹4,00,000 — you will never pay more than this.
  • If your income drops below ₹5 LPA for any reason, payments pause automatically
  • 14-day cooling-off period after signing — change your mind, owe nothing
ISA terms are set out in full at contract signing

What the ISA actually looks like

An example. You finish the Fellowship, we place you in a role at ₹15 LPA CTC. Monthly gross pay is ₹1,25,000. Your ISA payment is:

Monthly gross income₹1,25,000
Above ₹5 LPA threshold (₹41,667/month)?Yes — payments active
Monthly ISA payment (10%)₹12,500
GST on ISA (18%)₹2,250
Total monthly outgoing₹14,750
Maximum payment window24 months
Maximum total repayment (excl. GST)₹4,00,000
What you'd actually pay in this example₹3,00,000 over 24 months

Bottom line: you only pay when you're earning well through a Company-facilitated placement, you're never on the hook for more than ₹4 lakhs total (excl. GST), and payments stop dead at 24 months regardless. If you earn less than ₹5 LPA the entire time, or you find a job entirely on your own, you pay nothing.

Fellowship FAQ

The questions we get most.

Who is the Fellowship for?
Engineers with some programming foundation — typically 1–3 years of self-taught or junior experience — who want to become genuinely senior. If you can solve a medium Leetcode problem and have built one real thing end-to-end, you can handle the Fellowship.
What's the selection process?
A written application, a short technical screen, and a 45-minute conversation with a senior engineer on our panel. We select for raw problem-solving, ownership instinct, and communication — not prestige.
Is the Fellowship full-time?
No — the Fellowship is a four-month part-time program, designed to run alongside your existing schedule. You'll commit a reasonable portion of your week to sessions, projects, and mentorship, but you're not expected to leave your current job or studies to participate.
What happens if I drop out?
There's a 14-day cooling-off period from signing — cancel within those 14 days and you owe nothing, full stop. After that: if you exit before we've placed you in a role and before you're in an active interview process we facilitated, the ISA is terminated and you owe nothing. However, if we've already put you into an interview or selection process with an employer, and you subsequently accept that role, your ISA obligation still applies — because we started that process for you. If you paid upfront, refunds are on a sliding scale based on how far through the program you got.
Do I have to take a job through Engagetal?
No. But the ISA only applies to income from placements we facilitated — interviews we set up, referrals we made, or connections through our network. If you find a job entirely on your own with zero involvement from us, the ISA does not trigger and you owe nothing. Many Fellows take roles from our hiring pool because of the match quality, but the choice is always yours.
Is the ISA legally binding?
Yes. The ISA is a formal agreement signed at enrollment. We'll walk you through every clause before you sign and you're welcome to have your own lawyer review it. The 24-month term and ₹4 lakh cap are written in; we can't and won't change them after signing.
What counts as "earning over ₹5 LPA"?
Gross monthly income above ₹41,667 (equivalent to ₹5 LPA) from salaried or contract-based employment with a third-party employer, where that employment was facilitated by us. Self-employment and freelance income do not count. If you're between jobs or earning below the threshold, payments pause. When you clear it again, they resume. The 24-month clock only runs during months you're actively paying.
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