How We Support Early-in-Career Engineers
In a slightly more flexible world, Networks Reimagined would have been formed not as a limited liability company (LLC) but as a "social business" in line with the principles defined by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus.
While the nature of our operations forces us to remain a for-profit company, we still strive to incorporate aspects of social business into our business model. Our vision is that we will eventually be able to strike a balance between profit-making and promoting social good.
Our support for early-in-career engineers is just one of the things we will do to encourage social change.
Starting in 2022, Networks Reimagined will begin holding online instructor-led bootcamps in the area of software-defined networking (SDN) and network programmability. Network programmability and SDN skills are currently in very high-demand, and we will be allocating one out of every seven bootcamp seats to early-in-career engineers.
As you may know, hardware-based rack rental solutions such as those needed for learning Cisco ACI and VMware NSX-T can be very expensive. Combine that with the time needed to develop course materials and provide expert-level delivery and courses can become very expensive. These costs are, to some extent, why these types of skills are in such high demand. But we pay for the upfront costs of all these resources for early-in-career engineers. As an engineer who has been accepted into this program, you are charged bootcamp fees only when you transition into a markedly higher-paying role.
We also help you make this transition via personalized support and mentorship free of cost.
The candidates we select for these seats will be engineers who are in a desperate need of a change, including:
- Those of you who have begun your computer networking career but have been pigeon-holed into operations or low-paying positions due to lack of training, proper experience, or even self-limiting beliefs
- Those of you who have struggled to find positions with respectable salaries as a network engineer because your locale demands advanced skillsets that are hard to acquire
- Those of you who have a demonstrable background of success in networking but need to emigrate to more advanced countries in search of better opportunities and purchasing a bootcamp using your current salary would put you in undue hardship
- Those of you who have made the mistake of staying in network operations positions for too long and now need to somehow make the transition to engineering and architecture positions.
These are by no means an exhaustive list of categories of qualified candidates. We encourage you to contact us if you think your situation warrants inclusion in our program. Tell us about yourself and your situation in detail, and we will do a thorough evaluation of your application.
Because we have a limited number of seats we can allocate to this program, those of you who are selected may still need to wait in line for future bootcamp openings.