What is Xccelerated?

Many companies have difficulty finding the right people, especially the right ML Engineers and data engineers for their projects and internal teams. So we created Xccelerated, a "data-vast service” company that bridges the gap between the search for talent and the development ambitions of talented individuals.

We help motivated data professionals who already have one to four years of working experience accelerate their careers. After an intensive boot camp, we match them with an international company under our ongoing mentorship and guidance. After 13 months of working and continuous training, they then join that company directly.  In that way, we provide a longterm solution for both parties.

How are you different from other companies?

We're not actually a consultancy firm or a recruitment company or a training company—maybe more like a mix of all three, and so the best of all worlds. Of course, if you need a senior consultant for your project, you might need to work with a consultancy firm instead. But if you want to build your team through a journey, with midlevel people, Xccelerated is the right partner.

Some other companies do offer a comparable "data-vast" construction, but they take people straight from university, who have no work experience, and train them. Those individuals do not always add value right from the start. Also, they will get the opportunity to join these consultancy firms after 1 year instead of the company they are working for, which decreases the chance of a longterm solution.

How does it work?

To ensure that our Xccelerators (as we call them) add value immediately from the start, we have a strict recruitment policy. We handpick the best data engineers and ML Engineers. We have two interview rounds, and everyone has to do a technical assessment, which takes about 15 hours of their own time to prepare. They have to present in front of our ML lead or Data engineering lead, which gives us a good impression of their current skill level. Additionally, before they ever start working for a company, they have to complete their bootcamp. It's very intense and pretty tough, but it also dramatically boosts their skills. The boot camp focuses on topics such as writing clean code, optimizing machine learning, cloud solutions and productionizing. In this way, we ensure that our people add value from the start.

Then, after the bootcamp, they work onsite with one of our partner organizations four days a week, with a "return day" once a week here at our Wilbaustraat office.  They spend half of that return day working on the client case, with support from our ML and data engineering leads. The other half consists of training on topics that weren't part of the boot camp—both technical skills and also soft skills.