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At Code the Dream, we envision a world in which tech innovation comes from all of us and benefits all of us.

Tandem Apprenticeship

With every line of code, your company can multiply opportunity, accelerate justice and immediately enhance productivity.

Tandem, Code the Dream’s managed apprenticeship program, is an innovative talent development program for building a sustainable, inclusive tech talent pipeline while adding immediate value on your teams. Companies dramatically increase the diversity and productivity of their tech teams in just a few months while opening life-changing opportunities for new software developers from underrepresented backgrounds.

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Tandem: Code the Dream’s Managed Apprenticeship Model

We help you meet business goals by providing a bespoke, low risk, and supportive talent development strategy to complement your existing approaches for sourcing early career talent.  Through our Tandem model, your organization gets the dual benefit of building a sustainable, inclusive tech talent pipeline through a registered apprenticeship program while enhancing capacity on your tech teams immediately.

BUILD A SUSTAINBLE, INCLUSIVE TECH TALENT PIPELINE

Through Code the Dream’s 100% free, highly selective Code School, we provide a sustainable approach to finding trained and tested tech talent eager to work for you.

We select 10% of motivated, diverse applicants from around the country for our rigorous Code School.  Top students earn an apprenticeship with Code the Dream Labs where they gain hands-on experience through actual projects.  Our students & apprentices are 60% people of color and 60% women

We partner in tandem with you to mentor and provide hands-on training in your context to apprentices through Code the Dream’s Registered Apprenticeship program.  This plug & play approach does not require you to hire upfront or establish a Registered Apprenticeship program while getting the benefits.

ADD IMMEDIATE VALUE ON YOUR TECH TEAMS

Tandem is more than a talent recruitment program. Our apprentices, guided by our senior development team, can enhance capacity on your tech teams and add value immediately

We partner with you to define the scope of work that apprentices will do, either as team members integrated into existing teams or as a cohort-based project team supported by Code the Dream’s senior developers.

We deploy selected apprentices based on the scope with the option for project oversight and mentorship from Code the Dream’s senior development team.

Apprentices deliver shippable code to support your projects.

YOU HIRE Upon completion of the program, you offer permanent positions to apprentices who meet your standards to retain knowledge and skills while adding diverse talent.  Recommended program duration is 6-12 months, but timeframes can be customized based on your needs.


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10 Tandem apprentices from CTD trained with SAS’s R&D team over the course of 12 months.

10 of 10 apprentices hired for full time roles!

Read more about about our partnership with SAS.

4 Apprentices and CTD’s Senior Developers worked on a Cloud Management project, following Cisco’s stringent guidelines.

Team delivered the user experience for managing Wireless configurations for Cisco’s market-leading Wireless LAN controller supporting 34M global access points.

Read more about our partnership with Cisco.


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“I’ve had the opportunity to strengthen my understanding of the software development process and accessibility in real-world applications. My confidence as a developer has grown tremendously thanks to the support of our mentors and the opportunity to contribute to production-level software.”
Marissa Lazo, former CTD Apprentice, now Software Engineer at SAS
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“If we only looked at the productivity of this program in terms of value and what Cisco got out of the project for the dollar it was a very successful and a major impact on our product. Their code is now a part of a major release, supporting 34 million access points, deployed all over the world. The quality was super high.”
– Chris O’Rourke, VP of Engineering, Wireless and Cisco Spaces
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“One of the coolest things about this program is that the fellows are contributing to production code only a few months into their time with us. Getting that kind of hands-on experience is invaluable.”
– Brad Jones, SAS Program Manager

Frequently Asked Questions

Generally between 3 and 10, but we customize this based on the apprenticeship!

Generally full-time for 6 months, with the potential to extend. Again, this can be tailored to best meet your organization’s needs.

Yes, this often happens and is one goal of the program but this is not required to participate. 

Yes! Learn more about Hiring Opportunities and Employer Partnerships

This is based on the scope, including the number of apprentices, and the level of CTD senior developer support requested. Cost includes recruitment, intensive training, apprentice salary, and benefits.  Depending on your needs, costs can up to 15% lower than hiring approaches.  Get in touch with us to discuss.