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Someone's cousin works at Google.
You have Cheatcode.
The people who move fast early aren't smarter. They just have someone to ask. Cheatcode gives you 1-on-1 time with people 5–10 years ahead of you — the ones who've read your resume from the other side of the table.
Free while we're in early access. No spam, one email when we open.
You're not underqualified. You're under-advised.
Every rejection teaches you nothing, because nobody explains it. The gap between you and the person who got the offer usually isn't talent. It's information.
400+
applications sent
Three replies.
Nobody told you 75% of resumes are filtered by software before a human ever opens them. You kept applying harder instead of differently.
₹8 LPA
on the offer letter
₹52,400 in your account.
You said yes to a number you didn't understand. Gratuity, variable pay, that 'retention bonus' in year two — someone should have walked you through it.
4 rounds
cleared
Rejected. No reason given.
HR won't tell you. Your friends can't. So you guess, change five things at once, and repeat the same mistake in the next interview.
How it works
Three steps. No networking required.
01
Say where you're stuck
Not a form with forty fields. One screen: what you're trying to do, and what's not working. Resume dying silently. Two offers, no clue which. Six months in and already lost.
02
We match you with someone who's been there
Not a life coach. Someone 5–10 years into the exact path you're on — who has sat on hiring panels, written the rejection emails, and made the same mistakes before you.
03
30 minutes. Straight answers.
No motivational speech. You leave with the specific thing to change, why it matters, and what to do this week. Come back when you're stuck again.
The questions you'd never ask out loud.
Not on LinkedIn, where your batchmates are watching. Not to a recruiter who's screening you. To one person, privately, who has no reason to lie to you.
- Is 6 LPA bad in 2026?
- Should I take the service company offer?
- How do I explain a 6-month gap?
- Do I need DSA if I want backend?
- Is my resume the problem, or is it me?
- My manager ignores me. Is that normal?
- Should I do a master's or keep working?
- How much should I ask for?
- Everyone's switching. Should I?
- Am I too late at 24?
The people you'll talk to
Not gurus. Not influencers. People with a job, five years ahead of yours.
Everyone selling career advice online is selling a course. Our mentors still work the job. That's the whole difference — they know what hiring looks like this year, not the year they got lucky.
- RS
SDE-2, fintech
7 yrs in industry
Has been on 200+ interview panels. Knows exactly which line of your resume gets you skipped.
- AK
Product Manager, marketplace
9 yrs in industry
Switched from engineering at year four. The person to ask if you're wondering whether you're in the wrong role.
- MN
Data Scientist, consumer app
6 yrs in industry
Started at a service company like most people do. Knows how to make that jump actually happen.
- PT
Engineering Manager, SaaS
11 yrs in industry
Approves the offers. Will tell you what your salary negotiation sounded like from the other side.
- SV
Designer, health tech
8 yrs in industry
Built a portfolio with zero agency experience. Reviews yours the way a hiring manager actually reads it.
- DJ
Backend Engineer, retail
6 yrs in industry
Failed 40 interviews before the one that worked. Has the honest version of that story.
Why this and not that
You've already tried the free stuff.
It didn't work because none of it was about you. Advice only becomes useful when the person giving it has seen your actual resume, your actual offer, your actual situation.
Free advice on YouTube
Made for a million people. None of them are you. Great for context, useless for your specific rejection.
Cold DMs on LinkedIn
A 4% reply rate, and the replies are polite non-answers. Nobody owes a stranger the honest version.
College placement cell
Optimised for the placement percentage on the brochure, not for the next ten years of your career.
Paid career 'courses'
₹40,000 for recorded videos and a community tab. Sold by people who left the industry years ago.
Cheatcode
One person, still in the industry, who looks at your specific situation for thirty minutes and tells you the truth. That used to be a family connection. Now it's a booking.
Questions, answered.
Who is Cheatcode actually for?
Final-year students and people in their first two years of work. If you're figuring out placements, your first switch, or whether the job you took was a mistake — that's exactly the window we're built for.
How is this different from free advice online?
General advice is written for a million people. A mentor looks at your resume, your offer, your situation and tells you the specific thing to change. That's a different kind of answer.
Who are the mentors?
People with 5–10+ years of experience who still work in the industry. Most have sat on hiring panels, reviewed resumes, and made the decisions you're currently guessing about.
What does it cost?
Early access is free while we're building. We'll tell you well before that changes — and you'll never be charged without asking first.
What can I actually ask?
Anything you'd ask an older sibling in the industry. Why you keep getting rejected, whether an offer is fair, if you should switch, how to handle a manager, whether you're behind. Nothing is too small or too obvious.
When does it open?
We're onboarding mentors first — a good mentor pool matters more than a fast launch. Join the list and you'll be in the first batch we let in.
Stop guessing what everyone else already knows.
We're letting people in slowly, in batches, as mentors come on board. Get on the list and you'll be in the first one.
Free during early access · One email when we open · No spam, ever