GeeksForGeeks’ Success Story: A Blogging Website 11 Years Ago, The Most Trusted Interview Preparation Platform by 2021

BY: Sandeep Jain, Founder & CEO, GeeksforGeeks

GeeksForGeeks is a leading interview preparation community in the ed-tech industry. It is a one-of-its-kind platform that now enjoys the ‘market leader’ position and is considered as one of the most trusted and prominent interview preparations portals at the global level. Amidst the ongoing turbulent times due to the pandemic, it is no less than a boon for students and is putting in the best foot forward to make them job-ready and future-ready for the uncertain times and unstable hiring scenario ahead of them.

With its unique and meticulously curated content with specifications in Data Structure, GATE, UGC, CS, and algorithms domains along with machine learning, coding, and web development fields, the brand strives to offers expert and state-of-the-art guidance to the students. Recently, GeeksForGeeks also marked its presence in the teaching segment and offers Engineering courses that are flexible and extend an option to the students to learn from live classes or indulge in self-paced studies.

The journey of the brand has been challenging yet fruitful. 11 years ago, IIT Roorkee alumni, Sandeep Jain started GeeksForGeeks as a blogging website. Presently, it is one of the renowned names in the ed-tech space with an enormous active user base of 20 million along with 8 million registered users both at the domestic and international levels. The platform offers free-to-access content and is backed by a skilled and expert workforce of 100+ employees who have contributed significantly in the community being a huge success.

Both it's forte and focus is to help the students reach one step closer to their goals- of landing their dream jobs! They prep students so that they can clear interviews and secure placements in distinguished organizations. Their target list includes Google, Amazon, Microsoft, TCS, Infosys, etc., and their likes along with various other prestigious IT firms and corporate giants. Their primary objective is to prepare the learners for the technology part of the interviews. However, they conceptualize courses for lateral entry candidates as well. Additionally, some elements of their curriculum also offer guidance for interviews until the HR round.

Sandeep incepted GeeksForGeeks as a blog with the sole aim of sharing knowledge pertaining to specific subjects. But later on, he accentuated it to develop it into an immersive, engaging community through his learnings and experiences to help students so that they no longer suffer from the arduous process of preparations for their interviews.

He initiated the community with an aim to create a space for students that will mentor them in the right direction. GeeksForGeeks stresses upon shaping up the learners holistically so that they can clear the competitive examinations, crack the interviews and get placements in the globally recognized firms.

While it majorly generates revenues from its blogs, the recently introduced course segment has also been performing well. In its decade-plus journey, the venture has been self-funded but Sandeep is now looking for securing round kind of funding and is presently in discussions as well but prefers not to reveal the details until the deal will be sealed.

Speaking about the growth of his venture, Mr. Sandeep Jain, Founder & CEO, says, ‘’ When I was a student and was struggling with interview preparations and for the right guidance, I realized that there is a gap with reference to learning and resources that can help students to prepare and clear competitive examinations. The ed-tech industry wasn’t recognized back then, and there weren’t any dedicated organizations helping the students for the same. This was a ‘eureka moment’ for me, and I conceptualized GeeksForGeeks. 11 years into the industry and running successfully, I am glad that we have been able to survive and thrive in the market. Once a start-up, we are proud of the fact that we are now a globally recognized brand. ‘’

GeeksForGeeks is an inclusive and open community known for offering accessible and affordable services to students irrespective of their socio-economic backgrounds. The platform leaves no stone unturned to offer an engaging, interactive, and productive learning process by providing concept-based tutorials. All it envisions is to continue to help the students walk on their path of reaching the goal of having their dream job via its relevant and premium content, along with maintaining its global brand image and leading stature in the market.

The brand is also planning to launch trending online courses based on emerging technologies, coding themed events and new campus programs across the nation, internship opportunities, along with the integration of advanced technologies to transform the learning experience for the students and make it all the more high-end, tech-savvy, and engaging in the coming time.