A full-time, 12-week immersive for career switchers with zero coding background. Live instruction Monday to Friday, a 1:1 mentor, a portfolio-grade capstone, and job-placement support that doesn't stop until you're hired.
Graduates now build at Linear, Vercel, Stripe & 380+ teams
The curriculum is sequenced the way a real engineering team is built — foundations first, then the frontend, then the backend that holds it up, then a capstone you can put a hiring manager in front of.
Every cohort is taught — live, all day — by four lead instructors who shipped production software before they taught it. They review your code themselves. They're the ones in the room.
Has taught 600+ engineers to think in components.
Believes everyone should fear a missing index, once.
Has watched 1,400 people write their first for-loop.
Has sat on the hiring side of 9,000 interviews.
Every figure below is reported under the Council on Integrity in Career Outcomes standard, third-party audited, and published in full each cohort. We'll show you the methodology before you owe us a cent.
of graduates are placed in a paid engineering role within 6 months.
average starting salary — across all roles, all locations, last 8 cohorts.
alumni now working at top-20 startups and public tech companies.
cohorts run since 2022 — Cohort 29 enrolls now.
"I applied the week I realized I'd be doing document review until I was fifty. Twelve weeks later I had a capstone I was proud of and three onsite interviews. The career team didn't stop calling me until I'd signed an offer."
"I'd never written a line of code before week one. By week six I was reviewing other people's React in class. The forty-hour weeks were genuinely brutal — the only reason I'd do it again is the simple fact that it worked."
"Sara made me genuinely afraid of a missing database index, which turns out to be a useful fear to carry into an interview. My salary went from $48k teaching to $91k. I have read that sentence back several times; it is not a typo."
Hatch works because it asks for everything for twelve weeks. If you can't clear the calendar, wait for a cohort where you can — the part-time version of this doesn't exist for a reason.
Two ways in. Choose the one that fits your situation — the curriculum, the instructors, and the job support are identical either way.
SCHOLARSHIPS — Four need-based seats per cohort are reserved for people from backgrounds underrepresented in engineering. Scholarship applicants follow the same admissions process; the scholarship form is on the next page.
84%, measured as graduates in a paid engineering role within six months of completing the program, audited annually by an independent third party against the Council on Integrity in Career Outcomes standard. We exclude no one to flatter the number — students who deferred, withdrew, or weren't job-seeking are reported as their own line. The full methodology PDF is linked from your application portal.
You pay 12% of your gross salary for 24 months of payments — but only while you earn $80,000 a year or more. Below that threshold, you pay nothing and the clock pauses, including any gap between jobs. Total payments are capped at $21,000, so the ISA can never cost more than a moderate premium over the upfront price, and often costs less. There is no interest and no penalty for paying it off early.
No — and most successful applicants don't. Week 1 genuinely starts at "open a terminal." Admission isn't a coding test; it's a short logic and problem-solving challenge that predicts whether the pace will work for you. There is a free two-hour prep packet we send everyone who applies, so you walk in on day one with momentum, not anxiety.
On the ISA, the answer is structural: no qualifying job means no payments, ever — your risk is your time, not your money. On upfront tuition, graduates who complete the program, meet the job-search commitments, and aren't hired within 9 months receive a full tuition refund under our written job guarantee. The exact terms are in the enrollment agreement, and we'll walk you through them before you sign anything.
Hatch is fully remote, so you can take the program from anywhere in the world without a US visa — about a third of every cohort joins from outside North America. We do not sponsor work visas ourselves, but our career team has placed graduates with employers who do, and we'll connect you with an immigration attorney partner for a free initial consult. We're candid in admissions about which markets are realistic for your situation.
Applications for Cohort 29 close soon, and seats are first-reviewed, first-offered. The challenge takes about forty minutes.