Talent Challenge Program 2021

Talent Challenge program is a platform that offers a structured remote mentoring program for college students who have successfully completed talent plan courses or contributed to TiDB projects. Open source projects related to TiDB ecosystems will be selected together with professional mentors. Students can apply for the projects, one at a time, and finish the projects with the help of the mentors in a given time. Mentees gain real-world experiences by working closely with mentors. Students who successfully complete the projects will receive bonus and better job opportunities.

Current cycle

Talent Challenge program 2021 is ongoing, check the timeline and projects available on dedicated page.

Communication

Feel free to contact us in the #talent-challenge channel of the tidbcommunity slack workspace if any questions and suggestions about Talent Challenge program arise.

How to Participate

You can participate in Talent Challenge program based on your role. Talent Challenge supports the following roles.

Project Maintainers/Mentors

Project maintainers or mentors are requested to submit the ideas related to TiDB Ecosystem under the Project Ideas page using the template.

PMC(Project Management Committee) of TiDB community will select the projects that will participate in the Talent Challenge program round and they will appear on the Selected Projects page after the selection.

Note:

Projects to be selected must have one mentor at least.
Mentors should be prepared to donate their time to help mentees with the project.

Mentees

Note:

Must be college students at school.
Students who have completed talent plan courses or contributed to TiDB projects are encouraged to apply for the program and they will be considered as priority, or who have proven capabilites on distributed database development.
You are eligible to participate as a mentee in a single project per-cycle.

Prior to the opening of applications, mentee candidates are encouraged to talk to mentors about the project. This helps them refine their ideas and deepen their understanding of the project.

Mentee selection process

Mentee candidates who want to participate in Talent Challenge are expected to join Slack Channel (#talent-challenge) to have self-introductions.
The mentors would communicate with mentee candidates about the project they would focus on and assign mentee candidates coding tasks.
Mentee candidates need to conduct coding tasks for their desired project under the guidance of mentors and submit their resumes to [email protected] using the template.
The mentors would decide whether to accept mentee candidates in the project based on their scores of talent plan courses, coding assignments, and capabilities.