Forkaia® Alumni

Real outcomes. Real proof.

Forkaia® alumni go on to ship code at Barclays, build models at Amazon, and earn graduate seats at Rice, Stanford, and MIT. Every outcome is tracked, verified, and documented. This is the receipts page.

12,400+
Verified Alumni
94%
Employed within 6 mo
1,200+
Grad School Acceptances
9,800+
Recommendation Letters Issued
Where they work now

A few of the companies hiring Forkaia® alumni.

A partial roster. Each name links to the count of confirmed Forkaia alumni currently employed there. Verifiable via the credentialing system.

Where they study

Graduate programs that accept our alumni.

Forkaia® has submitted recommendation letters to every major US graduate program. Alumni have been accepted to:

Featured spotlights

Read the full journey.

Every Forkaia alumnus has a story. Here are a few we've documented end-to-end — from before they joined Forkaia to where they are today.

Spotlight #551

Yuan Chen

Software Engineer · Barclays
Virginia Tech → Rice (M.S.)
Virginia TechForkaia®AmazonBarclays

From the Virginia Tech dining hall to production code at Barclays. Months of rejection, then his first real engineering role through Forkaia, then Amazon, then Barclays — and a Rice grad-school acceptance along the way.

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Spotlight #552

Aisha Patel

AI Research Engineer · Anthropic
UCLA → Carnegie Mellon (M.S.)
UCLAForkaia®OpenAIAnthropic

47 AI internship rejections before Forkaia. Then a fine-tuned production LLM, a CMU Ph.D. track, OpenAI Research, and now alignment research at Anthropic.

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Spotlight #553

Marcus Rivera

Senior Data Scientist · Microsoft
Cal State Long Beach
Cal State LBForkaia®IndeedMicrosoft

3.7 GPA, zero callbacks. 23 verified data tasks later, Indeed recruited him off LinkedIn. We talked him out of grad school. He's now a Senior Data Scientist at Microsoft.

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Spotlight #554

Sarah Chen

Head of Growth · Stripe
NYU Stern → MIT Sloan (MBA)
NYU SternForkaia®KlaviyoStripe

Two finance offers on the table — both felt wrong. So she joined Forkaia, ran 14 growth tasks across 4 brands, found her thing, did MIT Sloan, and is now Head of Growth at Stripe.

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Spotlight #555

Jordan Kim

VP, M&A · Goldman Sachs
Wharton
WhartonForkaia®LazardGoldman Sachs

Wharton pedigree, missed summer recruiting. The bulge brackets had passed. Forkaia put him on real M&A workstreams. Lazard skipped 4 interview rounds. He's now VP at Goldman.

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Spotlight #556

Priya Sharma

Senior Brand Designer · Apple
SCAD → RISD (M.F.A.)
SCADForkaia®PentagramApple

SCAD grad, $14/hr coffee shop. 6 complete brand systems shipped through Forkaia (all still in market today). RISD M.F.A. with full TA-ship. Pentagram → Apple brand systems team.

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Spotlight #557

Devon Walker

Software Engineer · Google
Howard University
HowardForkaia®StripeGoogle

Told his school didn't recruit well at his dream company. Then his 18 verified engineering tasks did the recruiting. Stripe billing infra. Then Google.

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Spotlight #558

Maya Johnson

UX Research Lead · Meta
University of Michigan
MichiganForkaia®PinterestMeta

Psych degree, discovered UX research too late for standard recruiting. 16 verified research projects later, Pinterest's research lead called her portfolio "the strongest he'd ever seen without an HCI degree."

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Spotlight #559

Tariq Hassan

Quant Researcher · Citadel
UC Berkeley → Stanford (Ph.D.)
BerkeleyForkaia®Two SigmaCitadel

Berkeley math grad. Forkaia put him on quant research from day one. Stanford Ph.D. with full funding. Two Sigma, then Citadel for multi-asset systematic strategies.

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Spotlight #560

Elena Rodriguez

Mechanical Design Engineer · SpaceX
Texas A&M
Texas A&MForkaia®Boom SupersonicSpaceX

SpaceX was always the dream. The application page kept eating her resume. So Forkaia gave her 13 real mechanical engineering tasks. Boom Supersonic → SpaceX Starship structures team.

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Our methodology

What we track. And how.

Outcomes data is only as good as the tracking behind it. Forkaia® tracks every alumnus on these dimensions, updates quarterly, and publishes aggregate stats annually.

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First-destination employment

Where each alumnus lands within 6 months of completion. Self-reported, verified against LinkedIn.

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Graduate school admissions

Every recommendation letter submitted, every offer received, every program attended. Tracked at submission.

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Salary trajectory

Aggregate salary data by sector and role, anonymized. Published as quartile ranges, not individual figures.

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5-year career trajectory

Job changes, promotions, founder events, and continued education tracked over a 5-year window.

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Forkaia → employer retention

How long Forkaia alumni stay in their first role after Forkaia placement. Industry benchmark: 18mo. Forkaia alumni: 28mo.

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Employer NPS

We survey hiring managers 90 days after a Forkaia hire. Net Promoter Score is published quarterly.

Latest annual outcomes report

2026 Outcomes Report drops in Q4. For institutional access (universities, employers, accreditors), email support@forkaia.com.

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