{"id":65087,"title":"🧋 Taro - Faster Career Growth for Software Engineers","tagline":"We get software engineers onboarded and promoted faster","body":"**tl;dr**: Your career growth shouldn’t depend on your ability to find a good mentor or manager. Taro brings together top SWEs with proven insights to scale your career. **Check out our** [**website**](https://bit.ly/taro_app_web) **and** [**YouTube channel**](https://bit.ly/rahul_yt)**.**\n\nTaro helps full-time engineers get onboarded and promoted faster. We do this through Q\u0026A and case studies from tech veterans, organized by company and level.\n\n### **⛔️ The Problem**\n\nAs a software engineer, you already know how to code. But **software engineering is so much more than coding**.\n\nOver the last 2 years, Alex and I built a community of 50K software engineers on [YouTube](https://youtube.com/rpandey1234), [Slack,](https://join.slack.com/t/techcareergrowth/shared_invite/zt-1ctxuq8h2-b3nnkQG0MtXyBpvrEFpgqQ) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/71614174/admin/). We talked to hundreds of engineers and found that their career bottleneck was not their coding ability, but how effectively they managed projects, understood the context, and communicated blockers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=65087\u0026key=user_uploads/192956/5ded8a2b-c6e4-4a8f-b6e8-039c9d7335a8)\n\nLeft to right:\n\n[📱 Alex](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-chiou/) has mentored dozens of engineers to Senior+ levels across his time at Meta and Robinhood.\n\n[🎓 Rahul](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rpandey1234/) has taught thousands of engineers through his role as a Stanford lecturer, LinkedIn Learning instructor, and YouTube creator.\n\nWhat separates an average engineer from a great engineer is the ability to independently create business impact, and that doesn’t get taught in a CS degree or a bootcamp. Taro fills the gap.\n\n### **💡 Our Solution**\n\n1. A Q\u0026A database from real engineers, with answers from industry experts. **All questions are tagged by company + level, which makes it easy to find relevant content.** [Here’s a sample](https://app.jointaro.com/question/mvMQj8228kuUe38BvdT9).\n2. Case studies from eng leads + managers at top tech companies.\n3. A community of software engineers at top companies who share insights + advice.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=65087\u0026key=user_uploads/192956/62f78267-822d-4ab1-a232-5c3f586b48d9)\n\n### **💁🏽‍♀️ Target Audience**\n\nWe already have 100+ Taro Premium members from companies like Meta, Google, TikTok, and Amazon (along with thousands of free users).\n\nTaro is a great fit for **full time engineers at fast-moving tech companies**. Taro is **not** a good fit for freelancers or students who are still exploring software engineering.\n\n### **❓Our Ask**\n\n1. Reach out if you’re an engineer starting a new role, or are aiming for a promotion.\n2. Tell us what upskilling products you’ve used for engineers!\n\nShoot us an email at [team@jointaro.com](mailto:team@jointaro.com) — our app is available for web, Android, and iOS at \u003chttps://joinTaro.com\u003e.","slug":"Gvn-taro-faster-career-growth-for-software-engineers","created_at":"2022-08-03T02:02:51.171Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T02:46:52.436Z","total_vote_count":61,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gvn-taro-faster-career-growth-for-software-engineers","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":27184,"name":"Taro","slug":"taro","url":"https://joinTaro.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d4584cf3fa0e1a05a89a63ceaa8dab2f4c2d68d0.png","batch":"Summer 2022","industry":"B2B","tags":["Developer Tools","Education","Community","Video","Creator Economy"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/27184"}}