Software Engineer at Google
Devon graduated from Howard with a CS degree and four interview rejections from his top-10 dream list. He'd been told his school 'didn't recruit well' at the company he wanted.
They told him his school didn't recruit well at his dream company. Then his shipped code did the recruiting.
Devon's first task was a full-stack feature for a Forkaia® portfolio fintech company. He shipped it in 10 days — half the estimate. We routed him three more tasks and assigned him a senior eng mentor at a top-50 startup.
Devon shipped 18 verified engineering tasks in 7 months across backend, frontend, and infrastructure work. His mentor became a real reference, not a paper one.
Stripe ran a referral push to Howard via Forkaia®. Devon's portfolio was the only one that came back signed off on production code review. He joined Stripe and was assigned to a high-visibility billing infrastructure team.
After 22 months at Stripe, Google's infrastructure team recruited him. He's now an L4 software engineer working on internal developer tools.
Devon's path is the one we want every Forkaia alumnus to know is possible.
Every stage of Devon's Forkaia® journey was tracked — from first signup to placement to where they are today.
Top-10 dream list. No callbacks.
Routed to full-stack fintech task.
Reviewer score: 94.
Across full-stack and infra.
Real working relationship, not a paper reference.
Recommended by Forkaia + mentor reference.
Top-quartile timeline.
L4, internal developer tools.
Forkaia® doesn't just claim outcomes — we document them. Devon's journey produced a complete paper trail of artifacts, each verifiable through our credentialing system.
Devon's story is one of thousands. Forkaia® alumni are at Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Goldman, SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, and 600+ other companies.
See all alumni outcomes →Every Forkaia® alumnus started exactly where you are. The platform handled the rest.