Jobs Report 10/30/24

Share Your interview experience!

We are starting a interview series where you can dive into the nitty gritty of the interview experiences within our community. Interviews will be anonymous but detailed enough to give you the full picture. Here are some questions to expect.

Job Search Overview

• What has your job search been like so far?

• How long have you been searching?

• How are you sourcing jobs? Websites? Tools? Inbound from recruiters?

• What source has been the most fruitful? (e.g., referrals, alumni network, job fairs)

Recent Interview Experience

• What was your most recent interview experience like?

• Who was the hiring manager?

• Who was the HR person?

• How many rounds were there?

• What questions did they ask? (Please list each question for each round)

• What answers did you give to those questions?

Offer Deep Dives

• What is the offer details

• What is the salary?

• Did you negotiate? Did they counter? How much more did you get?

If this sounds like something you want to be apart of to learn about other peoples interview experience to make you life easier, use the poll below and I’ll reach out to you.

To get a job through a backdoor, follow the money

Press and Marketing are the lifeblood of a company. Businesses need to share all their wins to signal to the world they are winning. One announcements they can never pass up on telling the world is when they raise new money.

A $10M raise, $100M raise, or a $1B dollar valuations are all great headline signals for you on your job search. BECAUSE this means they will be hiring! When you see these announcements I want you to go to their job portals and apply.

Even better if its a startup I want you to connect with the Recruiters and Founders directly. Congratulate them on the raise and let them know you are avaliable to be helpful should they ever need it. The hope is these little touch points will keep you top of mind when they inevitably start hiring.

And now, here are a couple places that have recently raise a couple dollars.


Naptha AI Raises $6M to Champion Decentralized Agentic AI with Multi-Agent Systems

Armis Secures $200M in Series D, Eyes IPO with $4.2B Valuation

Island Announces Participation of Citi Ventures in Its Series D Round

Novo Holdings Leads Kivu Bioscience’s $92 Million Series A Financing to Support Advancement of Next-Generation Antibody-Drug Conjugates

Evertune is building marketing analytics tools for LLMs. Check out the pitch deck it used to launch from stealth with $4 million in seed funding from Eniac

Misdirection of the week

I’m particularly annoyed with Glass Health because they are offering 120k-200k for a remote roles as a founding engineer role. Not bad of. However, in the fineeee print, allll the way at the bottom, you find this devious disclaimer.

“Hybrid in San Francisco (min. 2 days in office per week): $180,000 - $210,000. Fully remote: May be location-adjusted relative to the above”

EYE ROLL! The role is not really remote. Because (1) there is a bias for hybrid and (2) your salary is penalized if you go remote, as if you somehow lose your programming edge if you live in Ohio.

Man, I’m tired of companies trying to pull a fast one. But don’t let me stop you. The salary is still good. Go get your bag.

That’s a wrap

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