Formation raises $4M led by Andreessen Horowitz to train really ‘exceptional’ software engineers

by RJ Shara | Apr 8, 2021 | Startups

Sophie Zhou Novati worked as a senior engineer at Facebook and then Nextdoor, where she had a hard time to hire terrific engineers for her team. Disappointed, she decided to try training engineers to satisfy her team’s hiring requirements by mentoring at a regional coding bootcamp. After 2 and a half years of mentoring on nights and weekends, […] Disappointed, she chose to attempt training engineers to fulfill her team’s hiring requirements by mentoring at a local coding bootcamp. Formation development and CEO Sophie Zhou Navati. Instead of having trainees follow a repaired curriculum, Formation leverages adaptive finding out innovation to develop an individualized training strategy tailored to each student’s particular skillset and career objectives. …