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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…

Started my prep around October 2024 and I was consistent with the planning, efforts, applying and studying. It was painful but sweet. Applied mostly to backend/full stack roles in USA. Resources -  Coding \= Leetcode, Leetcode discuss section company specific, Leetcode explo…

I went through full interview loop at Google for L6 MLE position. This is how it went. I won’t be able to share the exact questions. Round1: ML system design, went well. Question was about designing a content moderation system. Feedback: Positive. Round2: ML system design, went v…

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…

About two months ago, I started my job search for a Product Manager/Owner role. Last week, I received an offer I’m super happy to accept—and I'm still waiting on a few final case study responses over the next couple of weeks. Quick Background: 3+ years of PM experience in the Mar…

Got hired 8 weeks after getting laid off. Here’s what actually worked for me. I’m a senior product designer and was looking for hybrid roles in my city. No FAANG on my resume, no fancy school, nothing particularly impressive on paper. I applied to 58 jobs → 8 interviews → 1 offer…

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…