Terms and Conditions

50% Money-back Guarantee Terms and Conditions

In conjunction with the program fees, Interview Kickstart provides the following TIME-SENSITIVE OFFER of refund:

For LevelUp/Masterclass (live program)

We will refund 50% of the total tuition paid for the program, if and only if ALL of the following conditions are met:

• You have passed all the tests part of the course in a maximum of 5 attempts.
  
  
• You have attended 80% of the classes live or watched the full recordings of these classes.
  
  
• You have completed 80% of the foundation material for all the scheduled classes.
  
  
• You have completed 80% of the practice problems.
  
  
• You have taken all mock interviews offered by Interview Kickstart.
  
  
• You have earned an average grade of 2+ or more in your mock interviews (grading rubric will be explained in your contract. For this, we will ignore the two lowest-scoring interviews.)
  
  
• You have appeared for onsite technical interviews (in person/virtual) at at least 6 different companies within the post-program support period.
  (These interviews must be for jobs relevant to the domain course you complete:
  
  
• Back-end, Front-end, Full Stack, Test, iOS, Android, Site Reliability, and Early Engineering: A job that requires coding at work.
  
  
• Data and ML Engineering, Data Science, Business/Data Analysis: A job that requires developing/using data processing/analytical tools and software.
  
  
• Embedded Systems Engineering: A job that requires writing code for embedded devices.
  
  
• Security Engineering: A job that requires developing/operating systems to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.
  
  
• AWS Cloud Architecture: A job that requires architecting/building/operating cloud-based applications/infrastructure.
  
  
• Product/Tech Program Management: A job that requires working cross-functionally to develop features from concept to launch.
  
  
• Engineering Management: A job that requires managing a team of engineers and working cross-functionally to develop features from concept to launch.)
  
  
• You still have not received a job offer.
  
  
• You notify Interview Kickstart of your claim for a refund during or within 30 days of the end of post-program support.
  
  
• You provide documentation to support your claim.

For StepUp/Fast-tack (self-paced program)

We will refund 50% of total tuition paid for this program, if and only if ALL of the following conditions are met:

• You pass all the tests that are part of the course in a maximum of 5 attempts.
  
  
• You watch 80% of the full recordings of these classes.
  
  
• You have completed 80% of the foundation material for all the classes.
• You have completed 80% of the practice problems.
• You have taken all mock interviews offered by Interview Kickstart.
• You have earned an average grade of 2+ or more in your mock interviews (grading rubric will be explained in your contract. For this, we will ignore the two lowest-scoring interviews.)
• You have appeared for onsite technical interviews (in person/virtual) at at least 6 different companies, within the post-program support period. (These interviews must be for jobs relevant to the domain course you complete):
• Back-end, Front-end, Full Stack, Test, iOS, Android, Site Reliability, and Early Engineering: A job that requires coding at work.
• Data and ML Engineering, Data Science, Business/Data Analysis: A job that requires developing/using data processing/analytical tools and software.
• Embedded Systems Engineering: A job that requires writing code for embedded devices.
• Security Engineering: A job that requires developing/operating systems to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.
• AWS Cloud Architecture: A job that requires architecting/building/operating cloud-based applications/infrastructure.
• Product/Tech Program Management: A job that requires working cross-functionally to develop features from concept to launch.
• Engineering Management: A job that requires managing a team of engineers and working cross-functionally to develop features from concept to launch.)
• You still have not received a job offer.
• You notify Interview Kickstart of your claim for a refund during or within 30 days of the end of post-program support.
• You provide documentation to support your claim.

IK – Success Stories

• This information has been voluntarily shared by the user.
• The information is shared by the user during or after the offer negotiation with the company.
• This only has data from the months of January, 2022 – June, 2022
• This data does not include salary increments that happened right after the completion of the course and support period.
• This data only includes salary information based on their offer letter vetted by our instructors
• The offers received by our students are on an average 5-7 times the average tech salary hike in the US.