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I got laid off from Meta and then a few other companies. I finally hit kind of rock bottom after working for a disastrously failing startup and had to part ways. I spent 2 months heavily focused on Linkedin, applying to jobs, trying to reach out to people I know. The one thing th…

2026 DS job hunt: 2 offers, $300K+ TC I kept seeing people say the DS market is terrible, so I figured I’d share my experience. It definitely isn't easy right now, but I don't think it's hopeless if you prepare well. I started looking a few months ago because of a career bottlene…

Wanted to share a recent experience interviewing for a Product Marketing Manager role at InMobi — partly to vent, partly so other PMMs can avoid walking into the same trap. The assignment they gave was for a “media buying product that enables automated buying across multiple chan…

Landed an L4 SWE role at Meta earlier this year. Got pretty lucky with the timing and signed before the Feb 10 layoffs lol. 2.5 YOE | $350k TC $193k base / $29k bonus / $128k stock I’d been looking for a job for 9 months before this, so this was definitely not a quick/easy search…

I applied for the role through an internal referral, which helped me get connected to the recruiter quickly. After an initial screening with the recruiter, I moved on to a second-round interview with the hiring manager, where we discussed the role in more detail, my background, a…

I actually applied for another role in the company. It was a senior product manager role which was switched to just product manager. I decided to continue pursuing it. It was a payments role - an area I don't know much about. So I did a ton of interview research and spoke to peop…

Thought I'd share some positive news! Just accepted an offer for a Senior Product Designer, and here are some things that I learned, in hopes that it might help other folks in the job market: Total search: 6 months From application → offer: 50 days Total Applications: 32 (15 refe…

I recently started as a data scientist at a fairly large tech company in Palo Alto, and figured I’d share the process since my background was pretty nontraditional. I was working as a financial analyst for the government, so I definitely didn't have the typical CS/ML background.…