How To Break Into Site Reliability Engineering on A F-1 Visa - w/ Sai Joshitha
and a Kubernetes pod just quietly died. A guy in a different time zone taps his card for coffee and it works.
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Get Hired - 21 Episodes
Interviews, recruiters, layoffs, internships, AI roles, career fairs, and the practical moves that turn applications into offers. 21 episodes are tagged here.
How To Go From No Job Offer To Amazon's AGI Development Team In 18 Months - w/ Kunal
🎯 That bet ran through a master's in the USA at Northeastern University and dropped him into the 2024 job market with no return offer and no sponsorship. Harder for an international student.
How To Write A Resume Big-Tech Recruiters Can't Ignore
I still have the exact one-page PDF that got me shortlisted for a Program Manager role at Apple. No skill bars pretending "80% Excel" means anything.
How To Get Hired For AI Agent Roles In Big Tech (2026) - w/ Sohil
I walked in ready for the usual "AI is coming for your job" sermon. Then a PayPal AI engineer — a guy who's also logged time at TikTok and JPMorgan — looked at me and said he's never once watched good code make anyone a dollar.
How To Get a Remote DevRel Job From India in 2026 (Step By Step) - w/ Saurav
Saurav is twenty-six and lives in Delhi. For five years he's worked fully remote for companies in Israel and the Czech Republic, and he gets flown out to developer conferences across three continents.
How to Choose Between Duke and Purdue MEM in 2026 - w/ Fiza & Bhushan
Picking between Duke MEM and Purdue MEM is the kind of decision where Reddit threads contradict themselves. And the people who actually survived it have already moved on with their lives.
How To Get Hired For Agentic AI Big Tech Roles in 2026 (Amazon Sr Data Scientist POV) - w/ Surya
Here's the uncomfortable thing nobody at career services will tell you: "I use Claude every day" stopped being a resume line about six months ago. The people hiring at Amazon, Google, and the frontier AI labs already assume you do.
How to Get Hired for Applied AI Roles in Fortune 500 Companies (Target Sr Data Scientist POV) - w/ Sowmya
Picture this: it's 2023, ChatGPT just dropped, every Fortune 500 suddenly needs an "AI strategy," and the job postings want 5 years of experience in a technology that's barely 18 months old. How does anyone actually get hired in that mess?
How to Future-Proof Your Tech Career in the Age of AI Agents (3x UiPath MVP POV) - w/ Naveen
Everyone's hyping autonomous AI agents. Your corporate IT department is quietly building a blacklist.
How to Get a Job by Just Showing Up (Moving to SF With Nothing) - w/ Deep
Most people grinding through a tough job market send 300 applications and wait. Deep Suchak bought a one-way ticket to San Francisco.
How to Survive the AI Wave as an Engineer (IIT Kharagpur Grad POV) - w/ Aayush
A lot of people frame success as leaving, which is convenient because it keeps the story simple. This episode is more interesting because he chose IIT Kharagpur instead, and the whole thing becomes a very different kind of bet on AI, ambition, and where the best launchpad actually is.
How To Deal With A Lay-Off While on OPT (& Get A New Job Within 90 Days) - w/ Aman
How He Stopped the Clock & Got Hired in 40 Days (The Blueprint) Description: Getting laid off is a punch to the gut. Getting laid off on an F1 Visa with the 90-day unemployment clock ticking?
How To Convert Career Fairs/Networking Events into Job Interview-Generating Machines - w/ Hrohaan
In this episode I talk with Hrohaan Malhotra, a Data Scientist at Wells Fargo who actually landed his role through a career fair. Hrohaan rewired the usual career-fair playbook: he didn’t show up to collect business cards — he showed up to build one great, memorable interaction.
How To Get Hired Despite the Most Brutal Job Market Ever (Ex-Microsoft, Amazon & TikTok Recruiter POV) - w/ Shreya
If you want a ruthless, recruiter-grade breakdown of how to actually get hired in 2025, press play. This episode features Shreya Mehta — professional growth coach and former recruiter at Microsoft, Amazon, and TikTok — and she does something rare: she publicly evaluates (nay, lovingly roasts) my podcast producer Deep’s LinkedIn profile and uses that teardown to teach every listener the exact moves that win interviews and offers.
How To Crack Machine Learning Interviews (Microsoft & Walmart Sr Data Scientists POV) - w/ Nirmal & Karun
Machine learning interviews have become a strange mix of theory, product sense, and please-do-not-waste-my-time energy. Nirmal and Karun pull the curtain back on what candidates keep getting wrong, what hiring teams actually notice, and how to stop rehearsing answers that sound smart but do not land.
How to Ace Any Job Interview in 2025– Advanced Tips & AI Strategies - w/ Varun
Varun shares exclusive interview-coaching insights from his 21-Day Interview Mastery cohorts. We cover practical frameworks for every interview-question type and the psychology of endearing yourself to any interviewer, no matter the industry, role, or career stage.
How To Get Hired As A Data Engineer - w/ Sam
Data engineering is the role people find after they get tired of vague 'learn data' advice. Sam makes the path concrete: what the job really asks for, which tools matter, and how to get hired without pretending you woke up fluent in all of it.
How To Be An Ace Big-Tech Software Developer - w/ Hemant
Everyone wants the clean answer for how to get into Meta, but the real path is usually a lot less tidy than the LinkedIn version. This one gets into the stuff that actually moves the needle: the technical bar, the moves that help you switch to better opportunities, and the kind of prep that does not collapse the second an interviewer asks a real question.
How To Crack Your First US Internship (& Transition to Product Manager Roles) - w/ Maya
First internships are often less about being brilliant and more about not getting spooked by the process. This episode is for the person who keeps thinking the US product manager path is only for some polished, obvious candidate from the start.
How To Hire as a Tech Recruiter (& Get Hired as a Student) - w/ Kati
A resume usually does not get rejected because you are terrible. It gets rejected because it is speaking the wrong language, and nobody bothered to tell you that until after the damage was done.
How to Excel at Case Interviews (and as a Business Analyst) - w/ Aditya
In this episode, my guest is Aditya Kothari. Aditya is a Senior Business Analyst at Capital One.
