Mentorship — Payment Terms

Last updated: July 26, 2026

This is the full text of what the mentorship page compresses into a short summary. It is written to be read before our first call, so that no number comes as a surprise later.

These terms describe how payment works. They are not the agreement itself — the agreement is a written record we fix together before any work starts (§7).

1. What this covers

This is one-on-one mentoring: a personal plan, weekly calls, review of your code and resume, mock interviews, vacancy selection, referrals where I have contacts, and support through your probation period after you start work.

Three things it explicitly is not:

It is not recruitment. I am not an employment agency, I do not act on behalf of any employer, and I am not a party to any employment contract you sign. Where I introduce you to a company, that is a personal referral — the company decides, and you still go through their process.
It is not a guarantee of employment. I do not promise an offer, a salary, a timeline, or a specific employer. What I commit to is the work described above, for as long as it takes or until either of us stops (§6).
It is not a course. There is no recorded programme, no cohort, and no curriculum that ends on a date.

Scope. Placement work and referrals run in the Russian-speaking IT market, which is where my contacts are. Mentoring itself runs in Russian or English. If you are looking for placement into a different market, say so on the first call — I will tell you honestly whether I can help, and usually the answer is that I cannot.

2. Price and how it is calculated

Before you start work: 0. No deposit, no subscription, and no charge for materials, calls, or reviews at any point.

After you start work: 20% of your gross monthly salary, for exactly six months.

The base is your gross salary — the contractual figure before income tax.
Bonuses, one-off payments, equity, and benefits are excluded. Only base salary counts.
There are exactly six payments. Not six months of billing that might extend — six.
The total is therefore 1.2× one month's gross salary, spread over half a year.
There is no cap and no floor. The payment follows your salary, up or down.

Worked example, Russian market. A gross salary of 150,000 ₽ per month means 30,000 ₽ per month for six months — 180,000 ₽ in total, and then the payments stop. The total is stated deliberately: you should not have to work it out yourself.

The percentage is the same whatever currency you are paid in. If you are hired outside the rouble zone, we agree the payment currency in writing before work starts (§7).

3. When payments start and when they end

The first payment is due after you have received your first salary — not when you sign the offer, and not when you start.
Payments run monthly, six times, alongside your salary.
After the sixth payment there are no further obligations between us in either direction.

If your salary is delayed, the payment is delayed with it. Payments are tied to money actually reaching you.

4. If there is no offer

You pay nothing. Not now, and not later.

This is worth stating plainly because it is the part people assume must have a catch:

There is no deferred bill. Nothing accrues while we work.
It is not a loan, not credit, and not a deferred-payment or income-share product sold by a third party. No principal, no interest, no schedule that survives a failure to get hired.
If you never get an offer, there is no debt — there is nothing to forgive, because nothing was ever owed.

The obligation comes into existence together with a salary, and it does not exist without one.

5. If your employment ends

If you quit, are laid off, are dismissed, or your contract ends during the six months:

Payments stop when your salary stops.
They do not resume retroactively. If you find a new job later, the remaining payments from the previous one are not revived.
Any months already paid stay paid.

6. Stopping the work

Either of us can stop at any time before an offer.

If you stop, you pay nothing and you do not owe me an explanation.
If I stop — because I do not think I can get you where you want to go — I will tell you why, and you pay nothing.

There is no notice period, no minimum term, and no cancellation charge, because there is nothing to cancel: no money has changed hands.

7. How the agreement is fixed

Before any work starts, we put the terms in writing — in Telegram or by email, whichever you prefer. That record states:

the percentage and the number of payments;
what counts as the salary base;
the payment currency, if it is not roubles;
the date the work starts.

The point of writing it down is that neither of us should be able to remember the numbers differently six months later. If anything in this page and that written record disagree, the written record is what we agreed.

Questions about these terms are best asked before the first call, not after.

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