Engineering teams that support internal mobility

There are multiple ways we encourage career growth.

We believe career growth is more than just moving up the metaphorical ladder, which is why we support internal mobility. For example, Justin joined us six years ago when we were working out of a shoebox. Since then he has been an IC engineer working across the stack, a Tech Lead mentoring others on the team, and an Eng Manager leading various teams through the pandemic. Similarly, Wendy joined eight years ago and has taken on several different roles. In 2020, she was our Head of Design and since then she has been a PM, a Designer, as well as a VP of Product and UX. She’s currently leading a team to build a brand new product at Color. Another great example is Stephanie, who went from Genetic Counselor to Support. She now leads technical support engineering.

Whether you prefer to level up as an IC, move into management, or take on an entirely new role and expand your skill set, we’re always looking for ways to help you take on new challenges and get where you’d like to be in your career.

This is a big part of why people like working at Course Hero.

We want you to grow your career with us. Engineers are encouraged to grow in their roles both vertically and laterally. With the help of our educational assistance and tuition reimbursement programs, employees have the opportunity to take certification classes and programs to continue learning in their field. Additionally, teams are able to shadow cross-functional departments (like Design and Product) and see the future path of taking their next internal job at Course Hero.

Internal mobility at Course Hero goes beyond upward mobility. We believe that growth and development can take shape in multiple forms, where employees can grow their careers by taking on new roles as leaders or as high-performing individual contributors. For example, a previous VP of Engineering took on a new role as a Mobile Engineer. While most of his career was spent as a Platform Engineer, he wanted to learn new skills, coding for mobile, and he felt that he didn’t get as much hands-on experience in his executive leadership role. This was fully embraced and celebrated, as we are life-long learners at Course Hero.

Most engineering teams have at least one person who transferred from another team.

In general, we think companies under-invest in growing people from within the organization and allowing people to work on teams that fit their strengths and long-term goals. There’s an enormous amount of untapped potential in people who have intrinsic intellectual curiosity and raw cognitive horsepower. We find those people, invest in them, and watch them grow at an incredible rate.

For example, our DevOps team just accepted two engineers that transferred from the data science and back-end services team. After a series of successful projects in their previous teams, these engineers wanted to refocus their career trajectory and work on an infrastructure team. We also support those who are interested in a managerial track. In engineering alone, three out of our six people managers were promoted from within.

There are countless opportunities to grow your career here.

Whether it’s the projects you work on or where you’re based (we have offices in San Francisco and New York and are remote in various cities across the U.S.), there’s a lot of room for growth at Nova Credit. As a company, we’ve had several folks like Tuvia, who was promoted from Corporate Counsel to General Counsel, move into leadership positions.

On the product and engineering team, we similarly want to see you succeed in developing your career, especially as we continue to grow. Several of our team members, such as Jinting and Binh, started as individual contributors and became engineering managers. If you want to move from team to team to work in a new area or learn a new skill, we support that too! For example, Maureen moved from the data team into product, James H. moved from a product development focused team to Infrastructure, and Marissa moved from the Newcomer team to the Credit Passport Supply team.

We encourage folks to speak with their manager and keep an open dialogue about career opportunities they’re interested in. Helping our fellow team members grow only helps us as a company better serve our customers and build the best product possible.