Good at finding you mentors, bad a building a network
I originally joined Pathrise in 2022 and after a year of doing everything they wanted me to do it didn't land me any offers. I felt like I was ambitious and excited about the whole process and met with some great industry mentors to work on projects and boost my resume. However, that was the only good part of the program. When it comes to finding you a job or placing you in a network/getting you referrals, this program fails miserably. I thought they would give me other advice besides to apply to 10+ jobs a week and send 10 cold emails, but thats all they ended up telling me to do. After about 6 months in the program I constantly had thoughts like "I can't believe I signed up to pay 10%+ of my salary for this". I did everything they asked from me and got 0 results. The applications they sent in for me also landed me 0 interviews so that was a total waste. I rarely felt any of the mentors were invested in me, nor did they give me any good advice on what to do next week. I remember having a meeting where a mentor said "if you're asking me for what you should do to land a job in this field, I don't know what the answer to that is". This whole process felt extremely discouraging, depressing, and a waste of time. I was looking forward to my end date in the program so that when I land a role I wouldn't be subject to their fess for a program I felt gave me no real value or direction. I was constantly asking them "what am I doing wrong", "what can I improve", "what should be my goals" and all they came back with was "apply for more roles and improve your linkdin". After 6+ month of doing this I was so discouraged that I asked them during on of the meetings, "I have a master's degree and some experience, but should I just give up and accept this isn't for me" and they came back with the standard answer of try applying for more roles. This isn't a program I would recommend for anyone. Besides for the connection to industry mentors, this platform doesn't have much to offer. It is definitlely not worth the money they ask from you. Instead I would just ask a pro to rewrite your resume and optimize your linkdin more. It would be much cheaper, and after all that's all this program does for you anyways. I had some of the worst droughts of discouragement in my job hunt I've ever had when I was in the program, and I wouldn't want anyone else go through that. Edit: I've recently talked to several other mentors and they told me the advice I was given was driving me down the wrong path. At this point the only thing I can say about Pathrise is that it at least got me started going in a certain direction. However, I now realize the advice I was given was not tailored to me to guide to my next job. I should have been targeting much more junior level roles/projects than what I was told. At this point, I think this program might have caused me more harm than good since it wasted close to a year of hard work and gave me delusional expectations. After getting advice from outside the program finally, I get why everyone I was getting mentored by kept giving me the same generic unfruitful answer: "Just keep applying eventually something will land". I wish this program hired mentors that were more invested in the outcome of the mentees rather than seeing these calls as a way to spew generic information or not tailoring their advice to fit the candidates current career trajectory,