"What can Taro Premium do for me?" - 10/7/2022

If you're looking for a job, [check out our video on how Taro can help you with that](https://link.jointaro.com/e5Swdksn8886KrQs9).

**Intro Chat**
- Every new Taro Premium member gets to chat 1 on 1 with a Taro cofounder for 30 minutes. This is something we can do at this stage since we're so early!
- The point of the call is to help you immediately with any questions and job issues you have and get an understanding of your longer-term career goals in general. From there, we can provide a personalized collection of relevant career resources just for you.

**Group Office Hours**
- We love helping people directly, so after the initial 1 on 1 call, we have group office hours every week.
- Each group office hours is led by a Taro cofounder, and it's meant to be a flexible, intimate, and communal way for you to get the help you need and just learn from other talented software engineers and their problems.
- You can drop in and out whenever, and if you want to stay anonymous, just join with an online name, video off, and share your question in chat. These sessions are not recorded to protect everyone's privacy.

**Taro Premium Sessions**
- These happen ~2 weeks and are exclusive live sessions where senior+ engineers come in and give a case study of some way they were able to find success in their careers.
- Given that they're specific and concrete, it is easy to use them as an example to come up with ways you can currently level yourself up at your current job.
- Here's a couple of them:
  - [How Rahul Built An Internal Tool Used By 100s Of Engineers To Get To Staff At Meta](https://link.jointaro.com/XsdHNht9bmBpzXeTA) - This one has been made free for all users of Taro!
  - [Mentoring Junior SWEs [E3] to Senior [E5] In Just 2.5 Years At Meta](https://link.jointaro.com/pEz7ZKsgpp3VBMAY7) - This premium session goes through how Alex grew software engineers at light speed at Meta, which he's now doing at scale with Taro Premium members and the entire Taro community as a whole.
  - [Becoming A Tech Lead In ~1 Month After Switching From Meta To Robinhood](https://link.jointaro.com/C99mq85ivCWyTbAM8) - A lot of Taro users are starting new jobs or are about to, so this is a great example of how to hit the ground running and deliver impact quickly, which is a hard requirement for senior+ engineers at companies like FAANG.

**Q&A Platform**
- As a Taro Premium member, you can ask any amount of questions and always get a guaranteed credible, in-depth, actionable response that is much higher quality than 99% of content you'll find on more public forums like Blind and Reddit.
- You can also view all other questions asked by the Taro Premium community. Questions are indexed by company and level, so you can find the career advice that's most relevant for you.
- Free question examples:
  - ["How to survive potential layoffs?"](https://link.jointaro.com/Z6yrx1fcjYheCTKW8)
  - ["How can I become more independent and better at unblocking myself with tricky technical issues?"](https://link.jointaro.com/xE8oMpCaDYjuMhCg7)
- Premium question examples:
  - ["How can I write great code faster?"](https://link.jointaro.com/7dMeqXwrGceNM3kr6)
  - ["How to identify projects that are more suitable for senior engineers?"](https://link.jointaro.com/PTs28oYaYUNk7Ba17)

**Masterclasses And Courses**
- Every ~1.5 months, we give an *extremely* in-depth 1 hour+ session going deep on specific topics. All of these are free to attend, but the recording and text insights are for Taro Premium members only.
- Example masterclasses:
  - [How To Choose A Good Team And Company As A Software Engineer](https://link.jointaro.com/RMfMmsJVnVhTfFQo8)
  - [How To Do Amazing Code Reviews And Write Clean Code](https://link.jointaro.com/29jyjjRiaUBZ1htQ9)
- Also every month or so, we will release an in-depth course by industry experts on a specific topic. The initial parts are free, and the full course is exclusive to Taro Premium members. As an example, [here's our course on effective communication](https://link.jointaro.com/VReQtMPn7rPa3gUB7).

**Taro Premium Community**
- All Taro Premium members are invited to an exclusive Slack space, which we're proud to say is one of the most talented, ambitious, and helpful group of software engineers and people in tech in the world.
- Here you can network with other ambitious folks in the tech industry and learn from one other, pair up for mock interviews, and share referrals.
- Rahul and Alex are always 1 Slack DM away from helping you!

If all this sounds good to you, [you can get Taro Premium here](https://www.jointaro.com/membership). If you have a learning & development (L&D)/education budget, you can expense Taro Premium and get it for free! [Here's the template you can use to get Taro Premium expensed.](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xpY2XBKTpiMN-o7U2c1pvqai5afQSVIuGMgQZiB-_Rg/edit)

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