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There's still huge demand for these roles - two questions to ask yourself are 1) how do I stand out? and 2) do I enjoy it? This is a great related thread: https://news.ycombinator.…

So pumped and proud to have you in class, and I love that we can help support you. Happy to chat w/ anyone as well re: engineer-to-sales transition. I started Flockjay for this exa…

You're definitely not alone. A big part of what drew me to customer-facing roles in tech was that I found purpose and impact from human connection. Being able to master technical p…

Kelly Schuur is our Head of Sales - she was the first Account Executive at Intercom and has spent a decade building and training sales teams. She's poured her heart into the intera…

We're making the same point. Most people regardless of background don't have access to private school, let alone private school financial aid scholarships. Mentioning my upbringing…

Would love to chat. Send us a note at hello@flockjay.com. First batch ready in March.

We’ve found qualities like curiosity, conscientiousness, coachability, prior success, and work ethic to be best predictors of success in sales, not age. We’d love to chat if you ar…

It's really hard for great dev skills to be learned in a matter of months. Sales on the other hand, is a different story. People already have many of the core skills, they just nee…

Thanks for the question, it’s an incredibly important one, playing out on the national stage most recently with lawsuits against Harvard. Diversity is notoriously hard to define, a…

Yes, there is currently a $5k upfront option. Most of our graduates earn 2x their current income in their new tech sales roles (>$75k or more) in year 1. We charge a fraction of wh…

We'd love to help. Ton of ageism in tech, and we're looking to help fix this (we have many students from those backgrounds). We focus on ADR/SDRs now, with the goal being that with…

"Make something people want" only works if people know you exist. I'll reach out to follow up.

Our classes are live, online, and interactive, from 5-8pm PST Mon-Thurs, with new ones starting every month. Most schools we've talked to (>250) don't offer courses with this train…

Cool thing about these roles is they're a killer combo of skills - best way to understand product-mkt fit is to talk to customers and truly listen to what they want (and what they …

Ton of hard work ahead for us to do that doesnt end with YC - making sure we're building for and serving people from underserved, non-traditional, and disadvantaged backgrounds. Re…

Right now, we're focused on working with students who are eligible for full-time work in the US (residents, citizens, and those with visas already). We're investing upfront in an e…

We are doing both (and have already hired from our own training). We plan to be one of the biggest hiring partners from our program. We're posting externally due to timing - we nee…

Yes, more popular than you might think, especially as a)SaaS products get more technical and b) roles like sales engineering grow. Some of the best performers in sales become thoug…

The goal is to shift costs over time to the employer, while still aligning incentives with students, so they have skin in the game. Companies struggle to predictably hire top sales…

Hi HN, I’m Shaan Hathiramani, the founder of Flockjay ( https://www.flockjay.com ). My team and I created Flockjay to make tech accessible for people from underrepresented communit…