We are a company focused on helping software engineers get better in technical skills, communication skills, and career skills in order to get a job they love in a company & location they love.
Our mission is to help people from all countries believe in themselves, dream, and achieve dreams in their careers by working together.
Back in 2006, when I lived in Kyrgyzstan I got an email from a Google recruiter. It was so unbelievable, I thought it was a scam.
I found it difficult to prepare and failed to get the job.
I didn't give up. I worked on myself for many months after that and from the second try I managed to get the job!
I relocated to Ireland and was now surrounded by so many amazing people and the environment helped me prosper.
Now, we want to help millions of people around the world believe in themselves, dream big, and achieve those dreams by working together in a supportive community rather than applying alone.
- Tilek Mamutov
In 2007, Tilek Mamutov joined Google soon becoming the first publicly known person from Kyrgyzstan to join this infamous company.
There, he worked in analytical, engineering, business, and project management roles across products such as Android, Gmail, Maps, Search, Translate, and YouTube for such geographies as Central Asia, the Russian-speaking region, emerging markets, as well as the world as a whole.
The last few years at Google, Tilek spent at Google X. First, as a technical program manager on Project Loon. It's an initiative to provide affordable Internet access in emerging markets using stratospheric balloons. And later Tilek spun out a machine learning business out of Loon, leading it to its first signed large enterprise customer.
In 2018, Tilek left Google to start a mentorship program that later became Outtalent. A half year after that, Tilek's brother Meder Mamutov joined him helping the program become an official business, get into YCombinator startup accelerator, reach first signed offers results, and raise their first round of venture funding.
After that, they were joined by Ana Ghidelli. At various stages of the company, she took responsibilities for various parts of the business, including operations, marketing, business development, resume writing coaching, behavioral interviews coaching, salary negotiations coaching and a lot more.
In setting our behavior, our culture, serving our customers, hiring, and looking for investors, we aim to follow these values:
These principles make us different from the most other organizations and communities:
When making the most important decisions for our business, we aim to follow these priorities for our business:
We decided to register and grow as a venture-backed startup instead of a traditional private company for two main reasons.
First, we were inspired by what such businesses as Airbnb, Google, Spotify, Stripe, Twitter, Tesla, and SpaceX accomplished and how they keep growing and thriving.
Second, we wanted to follow a well-established path to a lasting global success with many amazing investors, mentors, and mentorship programs such as YCombinator.
We spent many months to find the investors who share our mission and values and we are very proud for those who decided to get onboard.