Work 1:1 with Krunal Parmar, a Engineering Manager at Yelp. Weekly interview reps and real loop prep – mentees who put in the work are usually running real loops at their target companies in 3–6 months.
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Krunal Parmar
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Yelp
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“Krunal has been incredibly supportive and generous with his guidance in my job search season. Without his guidance and mentorship, I wouldn't have landed my current role. I highly recommend Krunal for any software engineers out there looking for a new role.”
— Hendro, mentee for 5 months
Why mentees come here
Most mentees arrive with one of these goals. If you see yourself in the list, you are in the right place.
Land a role at FAANG or top tech
Prep the full loop – system design, behavioural, negotiation. You want a mentor who has actually hired at the bar you are targeting, and you want weekly reps, not a one-off mock.
Level up in your current role
Mid to senior, senior to staff, IC to manager – or deciding which of those paths is even right. Someone a couple of steps ahead points out what actually moves the needle vs. busywork that doesn't.
Make a career switch without starting from zero
Change domains and find the angle where your existing skills are the differentiator, not the obstacle. Works with hard constraints too – "not sales", "not freelance", "not management".
Land your first engineering role
Break in without the traditional CV. Portfolio, story, outreach and screens – all the things that get skipped in courses but decide whether you get the offer.
Pre-application portfolio or resume review
Before you apply, tighten your materials with someone who hires at the bar you are targeting. One or two focused sessions, targeted feedback, specific rewrites – not generic advice.
Ship a side project or indie launch
Get a real project shipped instead of stuck in setup-mode. Scope, pricing, positioning, the unglamorous middle months – get pushed through them by someone who has already been.
Scale your engineering org past the founder-as-bottleneck stage
For tech founders and engineering leaders past traction – hire the senior team, fix the ops, stop being the person every decision routes through.
Learn a platform as a stepping stone
Get to real competence on a specific stack – Azure before an AI role, Unity plus Blender before your first game, Rails before joining a Rails shop. Structured weekly reps instead of YouTube drift.
Not quite your situation? Mention what you are working on in your intro and Krunal will tell you if they are the right fit – or point you to someone who is.
Why pay for this
Most of what you'd pay Krunal for is the parts the free options don't do – context that builds week over week, and someone who actually pushes back when you're about to do the wrong thing.
vs. YouTube + courses
Great when you don't know what you don't know. Useless once your blocker is specific to your situation – and the answer to "what should I do next" is whichever video the algorithm serves you.
vs. ChatGPT
Endlessly patient, instantly available, and will never tell you the plan you just shared is bad. Krunal will. That feedback is most of what you came for.
vs. one-off coaching calls
Fine for a single decision. Less great when the work is iterative – every call resets, your coach re-learns who you are, and the accountability disappears the second the call ends.
vs. volunteer mentors
Good for one introductory chat. Hard to ask a volunteer to keep showing up for you every week, review your work, and hold you accountable for months. Paid mentorship is for that.
vs. asking friends
Friends are kind. Krunal is honest because that's the job. The unblocked version of you a few months from now is mostly built on feedback that wasn't comfortable to hear.
vs. doing it alone
Possible, but the failure mode is silent: you drift, you avoid the hard parts, you don't know which feedback to trust. Most of what mentorship gives you is the part that prevents the year you wasted figuring this out yourself.
What you actually get
Mentor vetting, cadence, and accountability are the parts long-term progress quietly depends on – and the parts the free options don't do.
We interview every mentor personally. You work with someone already doing the thing you want to do.
Krunal keeps the long-term context on your goals, work, and career. Every session is sharper than the last – no re-explaining yourself, no starting from scratch.
Message Krunal directly when questions come up. Tighter feedback loops mean faster progress, not a week-long wait for the next call.
Weekly targets you work on together. Built-in accountability keeps you from drifting – the thing most self-learners quietly lose to.
Mentee outcomes
Every review comes from someone who paid for mentorship with Krunal and wrote about it afterwards. No incentives, no editing.
“Krunal is an absolutely outstanding mentor who provides strategic, immediately actionable advice. His guidance completely transformed my communication with my new manager, from mastering the "Bottom Line Up Front" appro…”
Roy
Standard Plan · 2 months
“Krunal has been incredibly supportive and generous with his guidance in my job search season. Without his guidance and mentorship, I wouldn't have landed my current role. I highly recommend Krunal for any software engin…”
Hendro
Lite Plan · 5 months
“Krunal is a great mentor, he has been very helpful during my interview preparation. We have done few rounds of mock interviews and in every round he is able to pinpoint some of my weaknesses and provide good suggestion…”
Edric
Standard Plan · 4 months
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How we'd work together
2 plans, same free 20-minute intro call across all of them. Continue only if the fit is right.
Lite
I bet you won't regret this decision! Let's learn & grow together!
What's included
Standard
I bet you won't regret this decision! Let's learn & grow together!
What's included
Krunal walks you through the plan that fits your goals on the intro call. No card required to book – you only pay if you both decide to continue.
Questions
Still unsure? Email [email protected] and we'll personally walk you through it.
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Book a free 20-minute intro call with Krunal. No card required – decide after.
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