One mentor.One goal — your offer.
Not a class you sit in. A dedicated senior mentor assesses exactly where you stand, closes your specific gaps, builds your portfolio with you, then prepares you for every interview round — and stays with you through negotiation until you sign.
- Until offered
- support continues
- Sydney / Online
- in person or remote
- 1:1
- weekly with your mentor
When a course isn't the problem
Most people stuck in their job search don't need more content — they need someone to find the actual blocker and fix it with them.
You don't know why you're not getting interviews
Week 1 is a full diagnostic of your technical ability, project experience and professional English — so the plan targets your real gaps, not generic advice.
You have skills but nothing to show
You ship a solo project and then an enterprise-style team project — code reviews, agile sprints, Git collaboration — and finish with a portfolio you can speak to confidently.
You interview, then never hear back
Every round is rehearsed — HR screen, coding, system design, final — with realistic mocks and a debrief after each, so you improve between interviews instead of repeating them.
Exactly what your mentor works through with you
Three stages, one outcome — and we stay with you until you get there.
Stage 1 · Diagnose & strengthen
We find out exactly where you stand before changing anything.
- 1Intake Diagnostic: Technical and English Baseline
- 2Frontend, Backend, and Data Gap Analysis
- 3Core Strengthening: Coding and Debugging
- 4Core Strengthening: English Expression and Interview Answers
- 5Reassessment and Target Role Calibration
Stage 2 · Build a real portfolio
A solo project end to end, then an enterprise-style team project.
- 6Personal Project Selection and Requirements Breakdown
- 7Personal Project Development: MVP Delivery
- 8Personal Project Polish: Testing and Deployment
- 9Team Project Kickoff: Collaboration and Roles
- 10Team Project Iteration: Code Review and Sprints
Stage 3 · Interview & offer
Every round rehearsed, every application deliberate — until you sign.
- 11Resume and ATS Optimization
- 12HR Screening and Behavioural Interview Training
- 13Technical and Coding Interview Training
- 14System Design and Final Round Preparation
- 15Application Strategy, Referrals, and Salary Negotiation
- 16Final Simulation: End-to-End Review and Sprint
Coached on your target stack
Full-stack and AI, tailored to the roles you want
Your mentor adapts the plan to the stack your target employers hire for.
The full-stack skills, coached properly
Not lectures — your mentor works through each layer with you, on your code, until you can build and explain it unaided.
Frontend
- React, Next.js, TypeScript
- Hooks, routing, state management
- Component design and reuse
- Performance and accessibility
Backend
- C# / .NET, ASP.NET Core
- Java & Spring Boot (if targeted)
- REST API design, auth & JWT
- Layering, patterns, clean architecture
Data
- SQL and MSSQL modelling
- Entity Framework and queries
- Indexing and query performance
- Migrations and data integrity
Cloud & DevOps
- Azure and AWS fundamentals
- Docker and containerisation
- CI/CD with Azure DevOps
- Deployment and monitoring
AI engineering you can put on your resume
Australian teams are hiring engineers who can ship AI features — not people who have read about them. You build these, with your mentor.
GenAI & LLM application development
Build real features on top of LLMs — structured output, function calling, cost and latency trade-offs, and the failure modes you must handle in production.
RAG systems
Chunking, embeddings, vector search and retrieval quality — build a retrieval-augmented system end to end and learn why most naive implementations disappoint.
Agents & automation
LangChain and LangGraph agents that actually execute tasks — tool use, multi-step reasoning, guardrails and recovery when a step fails.
Prompt engineering & fine-tuning
Systematic prompting rather than guesswork, plus when fine-tuning is genuinely worth it — and how to deploy and evaluate the result.
A resume that gets past the filter — and the recruiter
Most rejections happen before a human reads anything. We rebuild your resume for ATS parsing, then rewrite the substance so a recruiter can see your value in ten seconds.
- ATS-safe structure, formatting and keywords for each target role
- Achievements rewritten with impact and metrics, not duties
- Your projects framed the way engineers are actually assessed
- Multiple tailored versions — full-stack, backend, AI-focused
- LinkedIn rebuilt so recruiters find and shortlist you
- Application strategy, referrals and where to spend your effort
Every round rehearsed before it happens
You will not walk into a round you have not practised. Each mock is followed by a debrief, so you improve between interviews instead of repeating the same mistakes.
HR screen & behavioural
STAR answers built from your real projects, plus the questions Australian employers actually ask.
Technical & coding
Live coding under time pressure, thinking out loud, and handling the follow-up questions.
System design
Structure a design answer, justify trade-offs, and scope to a junior-appropriate level.
Final round & culture fit
Motivation, teamwork, and the questions you should be asking them.
Record real interviews in the portal and your mentor reviews them with you afterwards.
VIP / 1:1 Exclusive
One portal. Every step to your offer.
Your 1:1 membership unlocks a private coaching portal — a dedicated coach, a real project, a CV Centre, interview prep and SmartApply, our live job-match tool for LinkedIn and Seek, all tracked from day one to “Offer”.
Your coach moves you through each stage — you always know exactly where you stand.
A tech roadmap that’s ticked off in real time
No more guessing whether you’re “ready”. Your coach confirms each core skill as you master it, so your progress is visible and honest — for both of you.
- 7 job-ready core skills, HTML to Cloud & CI/CD
- Coach-verified, not self-reported
- A completion score that updates live
Build a real project — then turn it into interview gold
Your coach assigns a genuine, portfolio-worthy project. When it’s done, one click generates a personal interview knowledge base — STAR-method answers built from your actual work.
- A portfolio project you can talk about with confidence
- STAR-method answers built from your real project
- Junior & graduate-friendly, with the basics covered
E-commerce Analytics Dashboard
Assigned · React + .NET · Intermediate
“What challenge did you face, and how did you solve it?”
A CV Centre that picks the right CV for every job
Keep every version of your CV in one place — drag, drop and upload as many as you like, tag them by role, and analyse any job description to see which CV to send and what to tweak.
- Drag-and-drop, upload & download many CVs at once
- Tag CVs by role — Frontend, Full-stack, Data…
- JD analysis: match score + best CV to apply with
Drop CVs here, or click to browse
Select multiple · PDF, DOC, DOCX
Recommended CV: Frontend_React_CV.pdf
Walk into every interview already prepared
A checklist of the must-prepare topics every interviewer asks, your personal knowledge base for practice, and LinkedIn Optimisation reviewed and signed off by your coach.
- 8 must-prepare topics, from self-intro to questions to ask
- Practise with your own interview knowledge base
- LinkedIn Optimisation — reviewed & coach approved
Must-prepare topics
A live match tool, right on the job page
Our Chrome extension, DCoding SmartApply, reads any LinkedIn or Seek job and instantly shows how well you match, which keywords to close, and exactly which CV to apply with. Then review your real interview recordings with your coach.
- Instant profile ↔ job match score on LinkedIn & Seek
- See matched keywords and the gaps to close
- Interview recording reviews with your coach
DCoding SmartApply
Strong fit for this role
Apply with: Frontend_React_CV.pdf
Matched
Gaps to close
One dedicated coach, end to end
A senior mentor owns your journey — your CV, project, interviews and offer negotiation.
One goal: your offer
Every feature above exists for one reason — to get you hired, faster.
Onsite training & catchups
Learning to code alone in a bedroom is where most people quietly stall. Our Sydney CBD learning hub is open through the week with full-time mentors in it — so when you get stuck, you get unstuck the same day.
Full-time mentors, actually in the room
Our mentors are employed full time to teach — not contractors dropping in between client work. Someone at the hub knows your name, knows what you are building, and can pull up a chair and look at your screen.
Wherever you are starting from
Some students arrive having never written a line of code. Others are already working and want the skills that move them into a higher salary band. Same room, same mentors — different plans, set with you in your first week.
Face to face beats a chat window
A bug that eats a whole evening online is often a two-minute fix beside someone who has seen it before. Whiteboard the design, pair on the code, and rehearse your interview answers out loud with someone listening.
Regular catch-ups that keep you moving
A standing check-in on what you shipped, what blocked you and what comes next. A quiet fortnight gets spotted in days — not discovered when you start applying.
A learning hub, not a lecture hall
Desks to work at, whiteboards to argue at, and other students building alongside you. Come in to study, to pair, or just to work somewhere that makes it hard to drift.
In the middle of Sydney CBD
Suite 388, 368 Sussex St, Sydney NSW 2000 — walkable from Town Hall and Central, so an evening onsite does not cost you the whole night.
Prefer to study remotely? Every session is online and recorded too — onsite is there when you want it, never a requirement.
Events / Bootcamps
Moments from our recent cohorts, workshops and offer celebrations.
Real, verifiable outcomes
We let the offers do the talking
$102K
Avg. graduate salary (AUD)
5.0★
Verified Google reviews
84%+
Offer rate (course completers)
99.95%
Service satisfaction rate
Where our graduates landed
What every student gets
Both 1:1 tracks below run on this same foundation.
Weekly 1:1 with your mentor
Fixed weekly technical Q&A and progress tracking — the same mentor throughout.
Exclusive internal materials
Course recordings covering technical skills, interviews and behavioural questions.
Solo + enterprise team project
Real sprints, code review and Git collaboration — a portfolio, not exercises.
ATS resume optimisation
Rebuilt to pass automated screens and earn recruiter callbacks.
Mock interviews, every round
HR screen, coding, system design and final round — with a debrief each time.
Referrals & salary negotiation
Application strategy, referral support, and coaching through your offer.
Two 1:1 tracks
Same curriculum, same projects, same interview preparation. What changes is who sits on the other side of the table — and how long we stay with you.
Track 1
Australian-industry mentor
$7,800
6 months · Sydney or online · start by appointment
Who mentors you
A senior Distinction Coding instructor in Australia takes this track, and has sat on the interviewing side of the table here. You are matched to the instructor whose stack lines up with the roles you are aiming at — frontend, backend, data or cloud — and you keep that mentor for the whole six months.
What you get
- Weekly 1:1 with the same mentor, start to finish
- Intake diagnostic, then a plan built around your gaps
- Solo project plus an enterprise-style team project
- ATS resume rebuild and LinkedIn optimisation
- Mock interviews for every round, each one debriefed
- Referrals, application strategy and salary negotiation
- SmartApply extension and the coaching portal
Track 2
Founder-led, with Larry
$9,900
Until you are offered · Sydney or online · very few places
Who mentors you
Larry founded Distinction Coding. He is a senior backend and fullstack engineer with over 15 years in architecture and development, built inside multiple large listed Australian companies and Australian government agencies, and he is a guest trainer for the internal fullstack programs of Fortune Global 50 companies, IBM among them. On this track he takes the sessions himself.
Everything in Track 1, and then
- Larry takes every session himself — nobody is assigned in his place
- Code review at architecture level: not whether it runs, but how a listed company would have built it
- Works whether you are starting from zero or pushing for a mid-senior promotion
- Career-path planning drawn from 15 years of hiring and training in this market
- Technical English and stakeholder communication, taught the way corporate training teaches it
Both tracks run the same curriculum and the same interview preparation. If you are not sure which one fits, ask on the first call — we will tell you straight.
Stop guessing what's holding you back
Places are deliberately limited — every student gets a real mentor, every week. Start with the diagnostic and find out exactly where you stand.
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