Employer signal
0%
of HR leaders say they avoid hiring recent graduates.
98% report struggling to find talent, yet still pass on fresh graduates.
>80%of CS and IT graduates never enter industry.Make Sure You Are Not One Of Them.
A twelve-week engineering simulation: real tickets, code review, and a product launch so you graduate with experience employers count.
Pakistan CS/IT pipeline
Most graduates never land roles at industry firms.
Only 1 in 5 makes it through.
Evidence
Three numbers explain why this program exists.
Employers are saying no. The barrier is experience. The numbers show why the simulation exists.
Top barrier cited
0%
say lack of real-world experience is the #1 reason.
Teamwork and communication gaps rank close behind.
Hiring odds
Same degree. Same skills. Experience roughly doubles hiring odds.
ZipRecruiter calls work experience the strongest predictor of getting hired.
Without experience
0.0%
hiring rate
With experience
0.0%
hiring rate
Mentors
Learn from people who have started companies and led teams.
Program mentors include founders, engineering leaders, and operators who have built and shipped at high-growth teams. Real experience across the stack and the business.
Y Combinator
Markaz Tech
JazzCash
Antematter
AWS
Cursor
Vector
Curriculum
Learn the work around the code.
Repeated practice in the habits that make a junior engineer useful on a team.
01
Production fluency
Every feature ships through branches, pull requests, review, and a shared evolving codebase.
02
Teamwork and organizational skills
Participants work in squads of three inside two product teams with shared rituals and review etiquette.
03
Product thinking
Feature requests are deliberately vague, so squads must write specifications and defend scope.
04
Knowing what to build
Squads build competing solutions, and the strongest pull request becomes the product baseline.
05
Scalability
Synthetic business-to-consumer traffic exposes bottlenecks and turns performance into a visible engineering problem.
06
Security
Simulated attacks force detection, response, hardening, and post-incident learning.
Tracks
Choose where you build.
Two teams. One product. Pick where you build.
01 / Frontend-focused product surface
Full-Stack Engineering
Own the product surface: user-facing features, interface quality, product flows, and client-side architecture.
React and TypeScript
Product UI
Feature PRs
Frontend architecture
02 / Models, APIs, and product intelligence
AI Backend Engineering
Work on inference, data pipelines, services, and the backend systems behind an AI-backed product.
Python services
Model integration
API design
Cloud and data flows
Simulation
Request. Spec. PR. Review. Merge. Repeat.
Every few days, the same loop. You run it until it becomes muscle memory.
Vague feature request
Every cycle starts with deliberate ambiguity, like a real backlog item.
Squad writes specification
Scope, tradeoffs, and acceptance criteria come before code.
Branch and build
Implementation happens on branches inside a shared codebase.
Open pull request
Work is submitted with tests, context, and merge rationale.
Review and judge
Peers evaluate quality, design, and production readiness.
Best pull request merges
The strongest contribution becomes the next product baseline.
Program arc
Twelve weeks from setup to public launch.
The work ramps from setup to a shipped B2C product.
- 01
Week 1
Setup
Onboarding
Tooling, Git workflow, squad formation, codebase orientation, and rules of engagement.
- 02
Weeks 2-4
First cycles
Foundations
Gentle feature cycles, specification writing, reviews, and baseline production habits.
- 03
Weeks 5-8
Faster shipping
Acceleration
Tighter cycles, cross-squad integration, early traffic simulations, and first hardening work.
- 04
Weeks 9-11
Pressure
Hardening
Sustained load, attack simulations, performance fixes, and product feature-complete discipline.
- 05
Week 12
Public release
Launch
A real business-to-consumer product goes live with paid acquisition, monitoring, feedback, and retrospective.
- 01
Week 1
Setup
- 02
Weeks 2-4
First cycles
- 03
Weeks 5-8
Faster shipping
- 04
Weeks 9-11
Pressure
- 05
Week 12
Public release
Onboarding
Tooling, Git workflow, squad formation, codebase orientation, and rules of engagement.
Foundations
Gentle feature cycles, specification writing, reviews, and baseline production habits.
Acceleration
Tighter cycles, cross-squad integration, early traffic simulations, and first hardening work.
Hardening
Sustained load, attack simulations, performance fixes, and product feature-complete discipline.
Launch
A real business-to-consumer product goes live with paid acquisition, monitoring, feedback, and retrospective.
Admissions
Cohort 1 applications are open.
20 online seats. Two tracks. One product launch. Cohort 1 starts 13 July 2026.
