I moved back to India after 5 years in the US. I was startled and disoriented by reverse culture shock — here's how I moved forward.

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Left: Vaishali Gauba on a CBS news set; Right: Vaishali Gauba holding a reporter's Microsoft and wearing Indian-style clothes.
Gauba had to leave the US after 5 years because she couldn't get an H-1B visa.

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I'm an AI engineer at HubSpot. This résumé hack helped me transition from software engineering.

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Georgian Tutuianu is an AI engineer at HubSpot.

Georgian Tutuianu

The bootcamp era is over. Companies are chasing elite college grads again.

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In a cooling job market, prestige is helping some elite college graduates stand out.

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I work at a coworking space that has an on-site preschool. It's completely changed my life and my parenting.

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Paulina Roe's daughter playing with a ball next to her day care room
The author's daughter goes to day care at a coworking space.

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I was a preteen hacker. Now I protect companies from cybersecurity threats.

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Chaim Mazal was a preteen hacker who became a chief security officer.

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I work at Google and saw AI change the tech industry. Here's how I upskilled and made a 'future-defining' career pivot.

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Gautami Nadkarni is standing on a path, wearing a black-and-white chequered dress. There are trees all around her.
Nadkarni is now a customer engineer in AI and machine learning within the Google Cloud org.

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Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008 and the dot-com bust

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Tech jobs are showing weakness in the US labor market.

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I'm an ex-Amazon, current Meta machine learning engineer. Here's how I built my résumé to land my AI roles.

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Smiling, a bearded man in a beige coat stands beneath an ornate red and white arched doorway with carved details.
Saurabh Khandelwal joined Meta as a machine learning engineer in 2025.

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My mother says she plans to never retire because she loves what she does. I wish I could say the same about my career.

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The author wishes he had a career that he loves.

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AI is creating an identity crisis for coders: 'I focused on this one thing, and now it doesn't matter anymore.'

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As AI takes on more of the work of writing code, what it means to be a software engineer is changing.

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