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Meet The Grads | What's The Most Challenging Part of the Program?

Name: Meet The Grads | What's The Most Challenging Part of the Program?
Uploaded: 2016-04-04T16:12:07+00:00
Duration: 26 s
Channel: Royston G King
Description: In this short interview segment, three recent graduates discuss the most challenging aspects of their program. Speaker A explains the intense time…

4 Apr 2016 · 0 min

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In this short interview segment, three recent graduates discuss the most challenging aspects of their program. Speaker A explains the intense time pressure of completing program milestones while working full‑time and raising three children, emphasizing the effort required to keep pace. Speaker B describes the difficulty of finding the first technical hire for their company, noting that the first three months were especially tough until the program’s network helped secure an engineer in the fourth month. Speaker C reflects on how the program deliberately mirrors the harsh realities of the industry—heavy workload, effort, and potential rejections—making it the toughest yet most valuable part of the experience.

Most challenging thing was pressure on the time to accomplish the year things because again I was working full-time same time and I have a family with 3 kids and for me to keep up the pace it took a lot of effort.
The biggest challenge was to look for for a technical, like the first engineer in the company. And so while for at least the first 3 months of the program it was a challenge, but in the 4th month I found an engineer because of the program through people here.
I think the program does a great job on mimicking the harsh reality out there in terms of workload, in terms of effort, in terms of potential rejections, and that's invaluable. So it's, it's probably the harshest part, but at the same time, the most valuable part.