altab

From zero experience to your first offer.

The software engineering framework for CS students. What to learn, how to learn it, what to build, how to build it, and how to land the internship and the new-grad offer.

12 modules, in order, from zero experience to your first offer.

Where Altab students have landed

What you will learn

The software engineering framework

12 modules. Zero experience to your first offer. Open any module to see what is inside it.

The job market

The job market is bad, but it's not as cooked as you think.

  1. 1
    How bad it is
    • Same as fine artsComputer science grads now have the same unemployment rate as fine arts majors.
    • 50% to 7%New grads' share of big tech hires, from before the pandemic to today.
    • Down 73%Entry-level hiring across tech, in the past year.
  2. 2
    Why
    The economics stopped working. An AI coding tool is $20 a month. A junior developer is $150,000 to $200,000 a year and needs six months to ramp, and one senior engineer with AI does the work of ten.
  3. 3
    The way out
    So is every CS student cooked? No. Companies still hire juniors who are competent: who can build real things, show them, and explain their thinking. That competence can be built. Nowhere teaches it step by step, and that is what Altab is. Module 2 even teaches you to use AI the way working engineers do.

What you walk away with

The experience and competency that actually get you hired.

  • Module 3 · Build real experience
    Real experience, not school theoryA real problem you picked, planned, built and shipped. Something you can put on your resume.
  • Module 4 · Pick a specialty
    A specialty that makes you competitiveCompanies hire specialists, not all-rounders. Go deep in one specialty and you stand out from every CS grad who tried to do everything.
  • Module 5 · The golden resume
    A golden resume that outcompetes the pileYour resume is the first thing a recruiter sees. It has to be your golden ticket in.
  • Module 6 · The LinkedIn playbook
    A LinkedIn recruiters flock toMake your LinkedIn this good and you'll be swimming in recruiter DMs.
  • Module 8 · Interviews
    Interview practice: how to show your thinkingGetting the interview is the hard part, so don't fumble it. Learn how interviews actually work, so you can prepare for exactly that and nail every one.
  • Module 9 · DSA, the fast way
    The DSA grind, made simpleLeetCode grinding is tedious and inefficient. Learn the system that makes DSA practice a breeze.

Thousands of engineers, and counting.

Built by engineers who got in, for the ones still trying to.

Built by

I went to college for computer science and didn't learn much I could actually use.

So I worked out, from scratch, how people really land big tech jobs. I dropped out, landed a big tech job anyway, and now I run a multi-million-dollar startup.

Altab is that playbook, step by step.

Offers from
The founder
You could be swimming in Inbounds.
  • An email from a recruiter: Software Engineer, Infra-Product, $200K to $280K plus equity, San Francisco.
  • A LinkedIn message from a technical recruiter: Opportunity at Meta, Software Engineer.
  • A LinkedIn message from a recruiter at Snorkel AI: AI Developer, San Francisco, $160k to $220k.
  • A LinkedIn message: Platform Engineer interview request at Rakuten.
  • A recruiter's message: $180K to $300K base plus 0.3% to 2% equity, plus benefits.
  • A recruiter's message: a hybrid role in Cupertino, $209K to $235K plus equity.
  • A recruiter's reply to what the compensation package is: $120 to 250k.

From students who used it

  • Internship at a top 200 company in 3 months
    “Other courses teach Python, C++, or Data Structures, but that's only one part of the equation. I've never had a course like Altab that showed only the absolute necessary stuff to go from 0 to internship. Super straight to the point, and I was able to land an internship at a top 200 company after going through this course framework in 3 months.”
    Vincent Nguyen
  • Landed an internship in 3 months
    “What I like most about Altab is how practical it is. A lot of CS courses spend time on material you rarely use. Altab teaches only what actually matters in a proven framework, so you can improve your skills as efficiently as possible.”
    Tracy Xie
  • Internship at a FAANG company
    “I spent so much time in school doing basic theory classes that don't really transfer into real-world experience. I've paid over $1,000 trying different courses, but they all suck because they don't actually teach me the real-world experience that the job demands. I was not able to get a job until I tried out this course, Altab, which basically helped me speedrun going from zero to landing an internship at a FAANG company.”
    Aadya Mehtma
  • First internship from zero experience, in 3 months
    “One thing that really sets Altab apart from other courses is that Altab really teaches you a framework and a way of thinking, so that you're able to be a competent engineer in any situation possible. A lot of other courses teach you what you need to know: the knowledge and the rudimentary course. With Altab you really learn the thought process of how a senior engineer thinks, so you're able to continually improve even way after you finish this course.”
    Alex Javier

Who this is for

  • You're proactive. You build outside the lessons and reach out to the companies you want, without being told to.
  • You have a big goal: a job in big tech, and the financial security that comes with it.
  • You already know a degree alone won't get you the offer.
  • You have the drive. You just never had a mentor or a framework to follow.

Who this is not for

  • You want another tutorial to follow along with.
  • You want a course to hand you a job, not to make you the engineer who can go get one.
  • You'll watch every lesson, but you won't build or reach out on your own.
  • You're fine graduating into whatever low-paying IT or help desk job comes along.

What it costs

One internship pays for Altab 375 times over.

Cheaper than every alternative, and the only one that builds the experience that gets you hired.

A CS degreeAbout $100,000In total. Still no idea what to build.
Other courses$300+ a yearSyntax and a language. Not a framework.
AltabFrom $79.99The complete framework, zero to hired.
One SWE internship+$30,000Paid to you.
375xwhat Altab costs, paid back by one internshipFollow the framework and don't land an internship? You get your money back. Conditions apply

Zero to hired.

The complete framework.

Best value

Lifetime

$200 once

The same as about 2.5 months of Monthly.

  • Everything in Monthly
  • A weekly one-to-one call with the founder for your first 8 weeks.
  • One payment, no renewal

Money back guaranteed if you don't get results. Conditions apply

Monthly

$79.99 /mo

  • Every module of the framework, 0 to 11
  • A private Discord channel to ask the founder questions
  • Feedback and check-ins to help your journey
  • Streaks, weekly leagues and duels

7-day money-back. Email us and we refund you, no questions asked.

Charged at checkout · Monthly cancels anytime

Questions

Answers before you start.

Why is it so expensive?

Look at what it replaces. A CS degree costs about $100,000 in total and still doesn't teach you this. One SWE internship pays you about $30,000, so Altab pays for itself the moment you land one, and if you follow the framework on Lifetime and don't land one, you get your money back. It's built for one outcome, the internship or the new-grad offer, by a founder who has worked in big tech, holds offers from Meta, Vercel and NVIDIA and runs a multi-million-dollar startup, with engineers who have worked at NASA and Blue Origin. The people we've mentored get inbound now without chasing it.

Why does this cost more than a $20 Udemy course?

A $20 course teaches you a language: Python, C++, syntax. That's the easy part, and you finish it still not knowing what to build or why anyone should hire you. Altab teaches the framework: what to learn, how to learn it, what to build, how to build it, and how to get hired. No long boring video modules, no fluff. Only what you actually need.

I'm already a CS major. Why do I need this?

Because the degree is theory, and it leaves out everything that actually gets you hired: what to build, which specialty to pick, a resume that gets read, a LinkedIn recruiters find, outreach, interviews. You did what they told you to do. This is the part they never told you.

Will AI take these jobs before I graduate?

AI changed the entry-level job. The code a junior used to be hired to write, a model writes now, so the juniors who get hired are the ones who can build real things with AI and explain their decisions. This framework is built for that market, not the 2019 one. Module 2, Learning with AI, teaches you to use AI the way working engineers do, as a mentor and not a replacement for thinking.

Is this just another DSA or LeetCode grind?

No. DSA is one module of twelve: Module 9, DSA, the fast way. A short list, a five-minute rule, timed redos, and asking for the pattern instead of grinding the whole site. The other eleven modules are everything the grind leaves out.

How long does it take?

The lessons are short, so it fits around classes, and you go at your own pace. One of our students went through the framework in three months and landed an internship at a top 200 company.

Is this another Duolingo streak trap?

No. No hearts. No lockouts. A wrong answer never costs you progress: getting it wrong and reading why is how you learn it. Miss a day and everything you've done is still there.

What if I have literally zero projects?

Then this is built for you. Module 3, Build real experience, starts from nothing: pick a real problem, plan it with AI, build it for the web, ship it, and run it like a business. That's experience you can put on a resume and talk about in an interview, not another tutorial clone.

What if it doesn't work for me?

On Monthly, email us within 7 days of a charge and we refund you, no questions asked. On Lifetime, you have the guarantee: follow the framework, and if you still don't land an internship, you get your money back. The conditions are on altab.ai/guarantee.

Start becoming the engineer they actually want to hire.

Zero to your first offer