The 30-day FDE goal: do the job before you have the title
The entire point of the 30-day forward deployed engineering framework is to do the job before you have the title. By day 30, you don't just understand what forward deployed engineering is — you have evidence that you can actually do it. When you pitch yourself to a company with that proof in hand, they're much more likely to give you a shot. That's the goal: close the gap between claiming a skill and demonstrating it.
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