Frequently asked questions

Six, and only six — the subjects every core computer-science interview in India is built on:

• Data Structures & Algorithms (DSA) — the flagship, with the deepest syllabus.
• Database Management Systems (DBMS)
• Computer Networks (CN)
• Operating Systems (OS)
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
• System Design

We would rather do six subjects properly than list forty. Each is priced separately and bought separately.

For DSA you need one language you can already write loops, arrays and functions in. We do not teach syntax from zero; we teach how to think about a problem and how to defend the solution in an interview.

DBMS, OS and CN assume no programming beyond that. System Design assumes you have finished DSA or have written at least one real application, because the trade-offs only land if you have felt the constraints.

Java, with the same algorithm restated in C++ where the two differ in a way that matters — iterators, memory ownership, integer overflow. The reasoning is language-neutral; the code is there to make it concrete.

Written material is in English. The interface can be switched to Hindi under Settings → Language.

Each course page shows its own lecture count and total hours, computed from the syllabus. At six to eight hours a week, most learners finish DSA in about three months and the smaller subjects in four to six weeks each.

There are no cohorts, no start dates and no deadlines. Set a weekly goal in Settings and the dashboard tracks you against it.

Yes, with a caveat. Most campus interviews ask low-level design — class modelling, APIs, a caching decision — rather than “design Instagram”. The course covers both, and the early modules are the ones a fresher will be asked about.

If you are choosing one course for placement season and you have not done DSA yet, do DSA first.

Yes, in both tiers. Every module has written notes and a practice set with editorials, and every lecture has a notes box of your own that saves as you type.

Cheat sheets and revision material are collected in the help centre.

Prices are per course, one time, and identical across all six courses.

Standard — base fee

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Standard — 18% GST

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Standard — total payable

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Pro — base fee

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Pro — 18% GST

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Pro — total payable

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There is no subscription and no renewal. Pricing sets out what each tier includes.

The course content is identical. Pro adds the human layer: four 1:1 mentorship sessions, mock interviews with written feedback, a resume and LinkedIn review, the placement sprint with a company-wise question bank, and six-hour doubt support instead of forty-eight.

Take Standard if you are self-directed and revising. Take Pro if you are in placement season and want someone to tell you what your answers sound like from the other side of the table.

You can switch tier in the cart at any time before checkout.

Our payment gateway is not connected yet, so every attempt returns an HTTP 503 and the order is recorded as Failed. That is true for every method, every card and every learner — it is not something wrong at your end.

Nothing is charged, no card details leave the checkout page, and the attempt is written to your payment history with a date and an invoice number.

At the failure screen, choose Continue with preview access to unlock the courses in your cart at no charge and start immediately.

UPI, debit and credit cards, net banking and wallets — all four are already selectable at checkout, and all four currently end in the same 503 while the gateway is being connected.

EMI and international cards are not planned for the first release.

Yes — the full terms are on the refund & cancellation policy page, and they apply from the day billing goes live.

Since no payment can currently succeed, there is nothing to refund today. If you see a charge from us on a statement, it did not come from this site — write to support@bruteinfo.in immediately and we will investigate.

Campus codes exist and are honoured, but the service that validates them runs on the same billing infrastructure as the gateway. Until that is connected, every code entered in the cart returns Coupon service unavailable.

Keep your code — nothing expires while validation is down. Mail it to support@bruteinfo.in and we will note it against your account.

Indefinitely. Enrolment is a one-time purchase with no expiry, no renewal and no seat that lapses at the end of the semester. Syllabus updates to a course you own are included.

An enrolment is for one learner. Beyond the terms, it does not work well in practice: progress, notes, streaks and the certificate all belong to one account, so two people sharing one login end up with one muddled record and a certificate in the wrong name.

If a group of you wants to study together, write to admissions@bruteinfo.in about the campus programme.

A certificate is issued automatically the moment a course reaches 100% — every lecture marked viewed. No exam, no fee, no waiting period.

Open it from Certificates. The page is built to print, so your browser’s print dialog gives you a clean single-page PDF with your name, the course, the issue date and the certificate ID.

It is a course-completion certificate from Brute Info, not a university qualification and not accredited by any statutory body. We will not claim otherwise.

What it is good for: showing on a resume or LinkedIn that you worked through a specific syllabus, with a date and a verifiable ID. What gets you the offer is being able to answer the questions — which is what the course is actually for.

You can sign in on as many of your own devices as you like, but progress does not yet travel between them: it is stored in the browser you studied in. Marking a lecture viewed on your phone will not move the bar on your laptop.

Until cross-device sync ships, pick one browser for a course and stay in it.

The video backend is not connected yet. There are no media files and no player, so rather than show a spinner that never resolves, the classroom is honest about it.

What runs instead: View lecture starts a five-second timer, the state reads Viewing…, and then the lecture is Viewed. Everything built on that is real — progress, streaks, dashboard figures and certificates.

The playback-speed setting divides that timer, so 2× takes 2.5 seconds.

No. The site is built to work properly on a phone browser from 320px upwards, including the classroom and the cart, and that is where the effort has gone.

There is no offline mode and no download option. You need a connection to load a page; once a page is open, your progress and notes are written locally and will survive a dropped connection.

In your browser, under the storage namespace bruteinfo:v1, bucketed per account. That covers enrolments, viewed lectures, notes, cart, orders, certificates and every setting.

Clearing site data removes it, and a private window keeps its own copy that disappears when the window closes. The help centre has a checklist for progress that seems to have vanished.

The last two major versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, on desktop and mobile. JavaScript must be enabled — the header, cart and progress are all script-driven.

Brute Info is the trading name of Brute Info Edutech Private Limited, registered at Unit 402, 4th Floor, Vantage Business Hub, Balewadi High Street, Baner, Pune, Maharashtra 411045, India.

The CIN and GSTIN are pending — they will be printed in the footer and on invoices once issued, and we will not display a substitute in the meantime. About us introduces the people who teach.

Yes — campus programmes for placement cells and cohort training for engineering teams. For business sets out how it works, or write to admissions@bruteinfo.in with your batch size and timeline.

Open roles are listed on Careers. If nothing there fits but you think you should be teaching one of these six subjects, send a note and a sample explanation of one hard topic to careers@bruteinfo.in.

Mail support@bruteinfo.in with the course, the module and the lecture, plus what you expected to see. For a bug, add your browser and version and a screenshot.

Corrections to teaching material are checked by the instructor who wrote the module, and we say so in the reply when we push the fix.