Dev Early Career Onboarding Experience

"Students struggle to land internships or jobs because they lack real software industry workflow experience. Our platform simulates Git, Jira, Scrum, and teamwork preparing them for real careers."

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Inspiration:

“We turned our struggle as students into a solution for future developers, a place to learn the real software industry workflow before day one.”

What it does

“THE NEW HIRE” simulates how real software teams work. Generate a Repository and clone it, pick tasks from a Jira-style board, fix bugs in a live repository, create branches, push code, merge changes, receive code reviews, and collaborate with AI developers who act as teammates in a Slack-like environment. We also include Daily Team Meetings and Final Retrospectives to ensure new joiners receive continuous feedback and understand true workflows. It’s the closest experience to working in an actual tech company, designed for students, junior developers, and onboarding programs.

How we built it

We built THE NEW HIRE using Google’s new Antigravity IDE, powered by the Gemini 3 Pro model. Our front end is developed with React.js and TypeScript, while the back end is built with Python and FastAPI for fast, reliable performance. We use PostgreSQL as our primary database. All LLM-driven interactions inside the platform run through the OpenAI GPT-4o-mini API. For authentication, we integrated GitHub OAuth, and we utilize GitHub Webhooks to automate agent driven code reviews and workflow responses.

Challenges we ran into

We initially tried building the project with Loveable, but it quickly became complicated because we were using multiple API keys from different providers. We then switched to Antigravity, which offered more control, but being a new tool, it took time to adapt to its workflow. As the number of features in our web application grew, both the backend and frontend expanded significantly, making it challenging to manage within the given timeframe. We also faced limitations when some team members ran out of free Gemini 3 credits. Despite these hurdles, overcoming each challenge made the process exciting and rewarding.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This idea was born from our own struggles and the challenges we faced starting our careers, so it’s deeply close to us. We thought about students, job seekers, and new joiners who feel the same uncertainty, and we built this product with them in mind. We’re proud to create something that can genuinely prepare people for interviews, help them understand essential software industry workflows, and give them the confidence to start their careers without feeling like outsiders. With THE NEW HIRE, they can step into the industry already connected to its processes, both technically and structurally.

What we learned

We learned how to work with emerging tools like Google Antigravity, integrate LLMs into a production workflow, manage GitHub OAuth + webhooks, and scale both frontend and backend components efficiently. We also gained insights into orchestrating multi-agent AI interactions, designing user-friendly development workflows, and handling feature-rich systems under time constraints.

What's next for Dev Early Career Onboarding Experience

We plan to integrate directly with Jira and Slack, and collaborate with companies to support their new-hire onboarding programs. Our goal is to gather feedback from real users and industry teams, refine the experience, and make the platform even more powerful and effective.

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