Alexis
Alex almost gave up coding.
Almost quit → fullstack role at a top French company
Alex almost gave up coding.
Not because he wasn't smart or he didn't work hard.
Because the market is brutal right now, and he had no structure, no clear path and no one in his corner.
His experience was freelance and contractor projects only.
His goal was always a full-time, stable role.
He jumped between tutorials and tech stacks, never going deep on anything.
He didn't even apply for SWE roles at first because he didn't feel ready.
When he finally started interviewing, he froze in front of senior devs.
Mind went blank.
15 interviews like that.
The gap was production systems.
So we built real projects, and he took part in the architectural tradeoff decisions.
He learned how to present those projects in interviews.
How to scale systems.
How to explain tradeoffs.
How to talk about WHY, not just WHAT.
He slowly built experience working on projects end to end.
That's what changed his interviews.
By the end, the technical interviews were easy. He'd done them enough times to stop freezing.
Today Alex has a fullstack role at one of the top companies in France: React, GraphQL, and React Native.
With an offer he negotiated up.
His highest income ever.
Once he had a real plan instead of grinding blindly, everything moved.
You get the offers when you stop grinding blindly and start learning with direction.
“I might have just given up coding, to be fair. The market is that hard. But following the courses and working with Hayk is why I landed the job in the first place.”