We are on a mission to build a more equitable world by helping people from all backgrounds gain the skills they need to land roles they love.
We are re-inventing education by throwing out the one-size-fits-all curriculum and replacing it with AI that is able to pinpoint personal areas of weakness and dynamically schedule mentorship based on each learner’s performance, calendar availability and unique learning goals.
Our AI platform powers our flagship Engineering Fellowship, helping engineers from non-traditional and historically underrepresented backgrounds get hired at the world’s top tech companies. In 2024, we helped our engineers increase their compensation by an average of over $127K. We have over 400 active engineers on the platform and are growing fast.
🌈 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: In the past decade, our industry has made huge strides in increasing interview opportunities for people from all backgrounds. However, we are still faced with massive disparity when it comes to equal access to high quality mentorship to succeed in those interviews. Formation is here to systemically remove that barrier of entry and build a truly equal society.
❤️ Benefits that show we love you: We are remote-first, unlimited PTO, flexible working hours and health and dental coverage. We also have annual retreats to amazing destinations (Lake Tahoe, Cape Cod, New Orleans to name a few), a flexible learning and development budget, a WFH equipment stipend, and more.
🤑 Well funded by incredible investors: We are lucky to be well funded by an incredible group of investors including Kapor Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Ben Blumenrose (Designer Fund), Soleio Cuervo (Combine), Lachy Groom, Matt MacInnis (COO at Rippling), Peter Deng (VP at OpenAI), Leif Abraham (CEO at Public.com) and more.
🚀 Crazy ambitious mission: We’re here to solve one of the most challenging missions in the world, one that we fundamentally believe needs to be solved.
💵 Transparent, competitive compensation: We run competitive benchmarking for every role that we hire, and we always target 90%+ of cash + equity compensation (based on our stage) for all roles.
We are a mighty, tight-knit team of team of engineers and world-class product thinkers combining our diverse backgrounds in higher education and scaling massive consumer platforms (Meta, Nextdoor, and Codecademy) to fundamentally transform education.
Sophie was a Staff Engineer at Facebook and Nextdoor, where she interviewed hundreds of engineers. She mentored at Hackbright and ran her own bootcamp for 2 years before founding Formation to fix the systemic inequities in the tech industry.
Michael was a Principal level engineer at Facebook for 8+ years where he held the proud accomplishment of being top committer in the Facebook codebase of all time. He now leads our diverse engineering team to deliver the Formation platform.
Daniel has 20+ years of engineering experience at Microsoft and Facebook, where he helped create the original Jedi (behavioral) interview process. He now leads our instruction team at Formation.