Hemant Pandey at Meta office
Hemant Pandey joined Meta in 2021 after experiences at Salesforce, SAP, Tesla and Amazon.
  • Hemant Pandey shares the resume format that has helped him land several software engineering roles.
  • He keeps work experiences short and includes points that make for good interview stories.
  • Pandey emphasizes the growing importance of personal branding in the job market.

Hemant Pandey's software engineering career was off to a good start.

After an internship at Amazon during his graduate program, he anded a full-time software role at Tesla in 2018. The pay was "top notch," and it was a dream company.

Pandey, who grew up in India, even invited his family to visit him in California that summer.

Two weeks later after they visited, he was laid off.