Scaler

Curricula built in consultation with major tech employers to keep skills aligned with what hiring companies need.

The platform reported a 96% job placement rate at tier-1 firms among those seeking new roles, as of early 2022.

Originally offered an income-share agreement letting students pay via salary installments only after landing a job, before Scaler discontinued ISA in August 2020 in favor of upfront/EMI pricing.

Cohort-based upskilling courses for working professionals in software development, data science and machine learning.

InterviewBit's original Series A-era program targeted college graduates and young professional engineers preparing for tech interviews.

4-year residential undergraduate computer science program launched in 2023, extending Scaler beyond working professionals into full-time higher education.

Learners get individual mentorship, career guidance and mock interviews from working professionals at major tech companies, layered on top of live classes.

A dedicated corps of Teaching Assistants coaches students on program material outside live classes, resolving doubts and keeping learners on the correct learning path.

Scaler runs a large Discord community where current students and alumni discuss technical topics, do mock interviews, share referrals, and join challenges and hackathons alongside formal instruction.

An AI assistant built on GPT-4 gives learners round-the-clock help identifying problems, choosing approaches and debugging code without revealing full solutions, extending human TA support with an automated channel.

Courses run as 9-11 month cohorts for working professionals, delivered online.

Scaler builds and maintains its course content in-house, describing its approach to teaching and training as industry-vetted and forward-looking.

Scaler coordinates a 'teaching army' of instructors and industry mentors who guide each learner at their own pace through live classes, 1:1 mentorship and group discussion.

Scaler runs dedicated placement support for learners -- mock interviews, resume reviews, and job-opportunity access through a network of 900+ employer partners spanning MNCs, startups and financial-services firms.

Beyond training its own learners, Scaler runs a hiring service for corporate clients: scoping roles, referring pre-screened technical candidates with problem-solving and code-accuracy data, and managing the applicant pipeline through interview stages.

Access to working professionals from major tech companies who serve as instructors, mentors and career coaches is a core human resource underpinning Scaler's teaching model.

A residential campus in Electronic City, Bengaluru, including a dedicated Innovation Lab for AR/VR, AI/ML, IoT, robotics and drone work, plus hostel and support-staff infrastructure.

Scaler's in-house course curriculum, built with an industry-vetted approach to teaching and training, is a core intellectual asset behind its programs.

Scaler's course curricula are designed in consultation with these major tech employers.

Since discontinuing the ISA model in August 2020, students pay course fees upfront or via EMI rather than a post-placement salary share.

9-11 month cohort courses for working professionals priced at roughly $3,350 per the company as of early 2022.

Employee benefits were the largest cost center, rising 2.7x in FY23 and representing about half of total expenditure.

Advertising costs were a significant expense line; they were cut 35% in FY24 as part of a broader cost-optimisation push.