I was laid off one day before my 2nd child was born. I landed a job at Meta in a month thanks to 5 habits I practiced even before the layoff.

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Vishwanath Eswarakrishnan is a software engineer at Meta.

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The formula to help you figure out if you're in the right job, according to a YouTube exec

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Should you stay in your job or chart a new path? Bangaly Kaba has a framework to help break the decision down.

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A software engineer worked at Tesla, SAP, and Salesforce. Here's how he negotiated his salary, including a $520,000 Meta offer.

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Hemant Pandey shares his tech salary journey

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I'm a Google product manager who mentors 10 people a month. Here's how I pick mentees, based on their messages and attitude.

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Sonakshi Pandey
Pandey worked at Amazon and AWS before moving to Google in 2021.

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A software engineering job got over 3,000 applications. Here's how a recruiter screened out 98% of them before a phone call.

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Big Tech seems to be making it harder for smaller companies to hire AI talent.

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A Google executive shares the 5 things to avoid doing for a successful career

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Daniel Rizea, a director of engineering at Google, advises against extreme job-hopping. While you may earn more money for a while, your performance will plateau, and you will not learn new skills.

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Walmart CEO Doug McMillon shares 3 tips for success in work and life

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"So not all things will go exactly like you have in mind. Some will, some won't, and that's great," Doug McMillon said. "Anything else would be boring."

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An engineer landed jobs at Google and Microsoft with this 2-page résumé — and describes the section she considers a non-negotiable

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Sonakshi Pandey's resume includes a section on her volunteering and mentorship efforts.

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I worked at Amazon, Tesla, SAP, Salesforce, and Meta. Here's what I do 24 hours before a big interview.

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Hemant Pandey joined Meta in 2021 after working at other tech firms.

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A machine learning engineer shares the résumé template that got him his first job and his senior role at Google

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Sahil Dua said that speaking at conferences like QCon, KubeCon, PyCon and MLConference have played an important role in his career.

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