1:1 Career Clarity Session

Is this for you?

This session is built for working professionals who are stuck on a specific decision, not for casual chats.

✓Book this if you are

Deciding between two career paths (analyst vs engineer, IC vs PM, switch vs stay)

Unsure what to learn next and tired of collecting courses without direction

Preparing a portfolio or resume and want blunt, specific feedback

Planning a transition into AI, data, or product roles and want a realistic roadmap

This is not

A placement or job-guarantee service. We promise clarity, not offers.

Doubt-clearing for cohort content. That stays included in every cohort, always, at no extra cost.

A motivational talk. Come with a real question, we will work on it together.

Pick your session type

Choose a category when you book, so the right mentor prepares for the right conversation.

Career Guidance

Role switches, “what should I learn next”, roadmap for moving into AI, data, or product. The most requested session type by far.

Mock Interview

A realistic interview for your target role with a mentor who has taken real interview panels, followed by blunt scoring and a written improvement list.

Technical Discussion

Portfolio or project deep-dive, architecture review, or working through a technical decision with an engineer who ships production AI.

How it works

You book an hour. Your mentor invests ninety minutes: 15 minutes of prep before, 60 with you, 15 writing your plan after.

Book and pay

Choose your session type, then pick a slot from real mentor availability. Secure checkout on codebasics.io.

Mentor pre-work (15 min)

You fill a short intake form: role, goal, resume or portfolio link, your one big question. Your mentor studies it before the call, so minute one is already about you.

The session (60 min)

A full hour on your situation. No warm-up wasted on “so, tell me about yourself”.

Post-session write-up (15 min)

Your mentor writes your personal action plan after the call: decisions made, next steps, resources, timelines. In your inbox within 24 hours.

Inside the hour

0–10 MIN

Context

Your story, your constraint

10–40 MIN

Work the problem

Options, tradeoffs, honest calls

40–55 MIN

Action plan

Concrete next steps, agreed

55–60 MIN

Your questions

Anything still open

Who you will talk to

Mentors who have hired, built, and taught in the industry. No fresh-graduate “coaches”.

Karandeep Singh Grover

AI PM Mentor · Codebasics

Runs mock interviews and interview prep for the AI PM cohort. Sharp on PM career positioning and AI PM interview craft.

Akshay Seth

AI PM Mentor · Codebasics

Leads stakeholder management, AI system design, and PRD sessions in the AI PM cohort. Strong on product strategy and real-world roleplay.

Siddhant Pandey

AI Research Engineer · AISE Instructor

5+ years in AI research. Runs the live labs and mock interviews in the AI Engineering cohort. The mentor for hands-on AI engineering career paths.

Aakash Pardeshi

AI PM Mentor · Codebasics

AI PM mentor with experience scaling product and AI teams for growth-stage startups. Strong on AI PM career positioning and real-world product strategy.

Srikanth Dongala

AI Research Engineer · AI Engineering Mentor

AI Manager building and scaling AI systems, from predictive ML to agentic LLM architectures. Runs mock interviews and technical deep-dives for the AI Engineering cohort.

Simple, honest pricing

One booking covers 90 minutes of dedicated mentor time: 15 min intake prep, the 60-minute call, and 15 min writing your action plan.

Regular

₹6,000 / session

✓60-minute 1:1 session
✓Intake reviewed before the call
✓Written action plan in 24 hrs
✓One reschedule included

For enrolled cohort learners

Cohort Learner

Regular price ₹6,000

₹4,000 / session

33% learner subsidy, applied automatically at login

✓Everything in Regular
✓Mentor sees your cohort progress
✓Plan aligned to your bootcamp track

The subsidy is our way of rewarding learners already on the journey with us. No coupon hunting, no fake pricing games, no timers. If we cancel on you, full refund, no questions.

Questions, answered honestly

Will this help me get a job?

We will not promise that, and you should be suspicious of anyone who does. What we promise: by the end of the hour you will know what to do next and why, in writing. Clarity compounds into outcomes; the work is still yours.

I am in a cohort. Isn’t guidance already included?

Doubt-clearing about cohort content is and will always stay included in your cohort at no extra cost. This session is different: it is one hour fully on your personal career situation, which a group format structurally cannot cover.

Can I choose my mentor?

Yes. Each mentor’s real availability is shown at booking. Slots are genuinely limited each week, so popular mentors may book out; that is real capacity, not marketing.

What if I need to reschedule?

One reschedule included with 24 hours notice. If we ever cancel or fail to deliver your action plan, you get a full refund without questions.

What should I prepare?

Fill the intake form honestly. Bring the one question that matters most. If you have a resume or portfolio, link it; blunt feedback on real artifacts is where the hour earns its price.

One hour. One focused conversation.
A clear career plan.

Is this for you?

✓Book this if you are

This is not

Pick your session type

Career Guidance

Mock Interview

Technical Discussion

How it works

Book and pay

Mentor pre-work (15 min)

The session (60 min)

Post-session write-up (15 min)

Who you will talk to

Karandeep Singh Grover

Akshay Seth

Siddhant Pandey

Aakash Pardeshi

Srikanth Dongala

Simple, honest pricing

Questions, answered honestly

Stop circling the same decision