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title:: P/Job Hunt 2022 icon:: 💼 type:: project status:: archive sort-key:: 2022.07 start:: May 21st, 2022 end:: Jul 3rd, 2022 score:: 👎👎👎 - **Project Summary and Conclusion** - I met the purpose of this project without the outcome of having an external job offer. JOKR is in good shape with another round of funding so I stopped being active in my job hunt. As with jobs you are always looking so this is turning in an area now #log🪵/alwaysbelooking collapsed:: true - Purpose: To have certainty about monthly income and H1B status in this uncertain economical condition by having at least 1 or more job offers at hand that I can fall back on if things go awry at JOKR. - Outcome: I have 1 or more job offers that at the least matches the wage I have at JOKR. I hold the offer at hand with a delayed start date in September which I shall rescind when time comes. - During the job hub I was well reminded about good my work life balance is at JOKR. This is the dream job I wanted when I started looking in 2021. I owe them one. I wrote this in the June Monthly review collapsed:: true - Block Reference - I made a lot of connection and learned a lot of companies through this. Lots' of VC and founder connects. I would not have jumped anyway. During June I had many founders and VC scout and connect with me. These connection will compound like @Sunny Singh, @adeel mallick - Humming Homes was offer on table but the twist there was interesting. collapsed:: true - I had an idea: Could do part time a at Humming Homes or if i get to a full time new job, could offer part time service to JOKR? Sven may accept - $150k for 16 hours - But then Block Reference - - I couldn't score an offer on table. I was mostly focused on advisor and CTO level roles. A lot of close application rejection without interview. Blame it on #2022marketcrash - I realized that working with independent recruiter and engaging with small companies creates some pressure and pull your towards commitments. For my purposes, where I needed 'certainty' by having offers at hands that I can easily toss out, I shall bias towards big company interviews and engagement. Getting offers from Amazons and Stripe are 0 pressure. I can keep em. Toss em. Feel good all around. - Independent Recruiters I worked with. Not much I got collapsed:: true - @Sarah Arteta - @Vito Chesky - **Scouting** collapsed:: true - ~~scout jobs is bio tech firms in Cambridge~~ Did not do collapsed:: true - Sanofi - Doesn’t pay. 150k for head of data - Crispr - Not sure - Biogen - It pays. 270k for sr director of whatever - Benchling - 2 interesting companies in game betting - FanDuel @Andrew Sheh just joined as CTO moving from Compass - Their CPO makes $350k as base as per H1b :) - React out to @Andrew Sheh for FanDuel ❌ - This reminded me of looking our OG Boston betting company DraftKings. Could check ‘em out for jobs. gotta be VP though. - No Call collapsed:: true - Savant Labs - Head of front end - Applied Jun 20th, 2022 - Meta - Director, Business Engineering, eCommerce & Disruptors - Applied Jun 18th, 2022 - Walt Disney collapsed:: true - VP Engineering - applied Jun 17th, 2022 - client sdk development - VP mobile - Applied Jun 23rd, 2022 - @Cash App - Head of Engineering - applied Jun 16th, 2022 - Modular AI - ML Performance lead - Applied Jun 16th, 2022 - LinkedIn - Dir of Engineering - applied Jun 13th, 2022 - Spotify - Dir Eng - Personalization - Applied Jun 7th, 2022 Applied - Lyft - Dir Business - Jun 7th, 2022 Applied - Doordash - Doordash Labs - Jun 12th, 2022 Block Reference - | Apple | Sr EM | self | Jun 12th, 2022 | Applied | Cambridge :) | - - Move on or Rejected collapsed:: true - Cloudflare - random EM collapsed:: true - Applied Jul 2nd, 2022. Because I’m in love with edge deployment - Nvidia - Sr EM AI Infra - Applied Jun 12th, 2022 - Humming Homes - Head of Engineering - @Chris Martin reached out on Jun 7th, 2022 - Block Reference - Block Reference - Gemini - GM/VP of Consumer Experience - @Kyle Langworthy reached out on Jun 11th, 2022 - Block Reference - Next Step: @Kyle Langworthy to connect with @Pravjit Tiwana - No call Jun 17th, 2022 - EzCater - Dir Eng - E-Commerce - Jun 12th, 2022 | Applied - Application says no H1B. - - VP - developer experience - Applied Jun 17th, 2022 - Random VC Scout = Tik Tok Real estate- CTO - Check out this job at Stealth Startup: - Applied Jun 25th, 2022; recruiter reached back within an hour. - The freaking didn’t move the meeting. Gonna ignore him. - Cancelling - Dont' feel like talking to that London based VC Scout - aha found out that this startup is a Y Combinator startup 2021 - called Playhouse, Tik Tok of Real Estate - still not interested. - - Nvidia - Dir AI Infra - Applied Jun 12th, 2022 - no call Jul 11th, 2022 - role no longer exists - Rippling - VP Engineering - Applied Jun 17th, 2022 - No call Jul 1st, 2022 - Github - No call Jul 7th, 2022 - Trender.Ai - Jun 29th, 2022 note from @Bill Sullivian that they hired somebody as head already. - Toast - Chief Architect Consumer Product collapsed:: true :LOGBOOK: CLOCK: [2022-06-15 Wed 18:19:45] :END: - Highest IC role I could get. Reporting to CTO and working with VPs. I am looking forward to this one. - applied Jun 15th, 2022 - no call; role doesn't exist anymore Jun 25th, 2022 :LOGBOOK: CLOCK: [2022-06-25 Sat 19:38:26]--[2022-06-25 Sat 19:38:26] => 00:00:00 :END: - Eden Health - CTO collapsed:: true - @Elsa McLean reached out on Jun 13th, 2022 - Block Reference - Block Reference - DONE next step with for @Elsa McLean to connect me with Scott from Eden Health - No call Jun 23rd, 2022 - Lightning AI - wildcard role collapsed:: true - Applied Jun 17th, 2022 - No call Jun 23rd, 2022 - HubSpot - [VP Operation Hub](https://boards.greenhouse.io/embed/job_app?token=4188166&gh_src=240b46771&s=LinkedIn&source=LinkedIn) - Applied Jun 12th, 2022 - Jun 15th, 2022 - Automated Rejected. wow! got response in just 3 days. - Archive collapsed:: true - Timeline collapsed:: true - Jul 11th, 2022 - Random experiment. Applied to a dev job @ Nethermind.io that pays in crypto. Found at CryptoJobList - Meeting dude from #Fractal Software. Discovery call. Nope. To be rescheduled id:: 62cc6025-a377-4c2a-99c4-13835555e8a0 - update: told the recuriter who were houdining me I would reach back in September - Jul 8th, 2022 - @Emily Arney from Fractal Software reached out. Another #vcscout. Their promise to fund founders seems interesting. So apparently, they would provide idea, funding and maybe even a co-founder/co-worker for an aspiring entrepreneur to build a vertical SaaS company. Damn! That's hits all the spots. Sometimes this is a little too good to believe.Next step to schedule call with her. id:: 62c96a7b-d585-4986-b04e-82ee8bfe414a - Jul 7th, 2022 - Meeting @Snighda Sur over video id:: 62c721a1-82a3-4124-96d6-80e1d7c3fdbd - Meeting @Michael Maccariello over video id:: 62c49cfc-67d7-4c80-bd99-cec11f46d567 collapsed:: true - Good chat. Was selling. AlleyCorp seems to have many few mechanism to get founder in their 'eco-system' - you can pitch idea and get equity, find a co-worker. The promise carrot was that I don't have to leave my current job! wow. id:: 62c721a1-6dc2-4224-8f09-7ff25960ea6a - {{embed Block Reference}} - Jul 2nd, 2022: With JOKR raising new funds my job is secure. That meets the purpose. Current engagement and few prospects are going on. Calling the scouting part of the project done after I clean up what backlog. - get scouting wrapped up before end of week Jul 3rd, 2022 ❌ - #Jun 30th, 2022 Meeting @Alex CTO dude from Humming Homes collapsed:: true - part time, 2 times a week; writing code and working on roadmap with adeel and kyle. - took my interview - // why aren't you joining then fulltime? - has other clients; few advisory roles - // humming homes - 6 engineers; LATAM; 3 backend, 2 iOS, 1 contractor - PM has been a gap. New one joining tomorrow. - They want the CTO now so scale and create and build the vision - There are some ambitious ideas. - Would stick around for 6 months. - Positive about the product vision. - Tech Stack: - native iOS, React, Django on Heroku - labor intensive in the backend; most things are happening offline - // his experience - went from 6 to 16 direct report -- 'it broke me" - liked days when he wrote code; - - - Jun 29th, 2022 - skipping VP of Eng reach out for Underground Cellar - wine company startup. Downer that it was founded in 2013. If you can't succeed in 9 years, you are Cogito. - skipping VP of Eng reach out from @Renato Ricci founder of Nok. Buy not pay later gig similar to Affirm founded in 2019 - Jun 28th, 2022 - New LinkedIn connect @Michael Maccariello, VC scout from AlleyCorp asking about JOKR. Next step is to connect. - Block Reference - Jun 27th, 2022: New LinkedIn connect @Divya Palaparthi asking about JOKR and food-tech space - Jun 27th, 2022: VC Call. - Jun 24th, 2022: Remember @Snighda Sur of The Juggernaut? She reached back on my application I filed last year! - DONE speaking with her assistant to connect her on... wow she gave me time 2 weeks from now. - Jun 21st, 2022 collapsed:: true - Scheduled @Bill Sullivian for Jun 23rd, 2022 12 PM - one startup - Les cofounder, ctp; something influence something - Trender.Ai - same founders or similar people on the board as Chaos Search - comp 185K - - @Matt Cometeer? from @Cometeer reached back out on engineering leader hire. - Jun 20th, 2022 - Jun 17th, 2022 DONE call scheduled with Amazon senior leadership recruiter SCHEDULED: <2022-06-22 Wed 12:15> - Jun 16th, 2022 collapsed:: true - Block Reference - - DONE respond to @Sarah Arteta :LOGBOOK: CLOCK: [2022-06-15 Wed 17:12:08] CLOCK: [2022-06-15 Wed 18:51:05] :END: - Uber cornerstore guy @Sunny Singh connected on LinkendIn. We getting coffee on Jun 20th, 2022 - Jun 13th, 2022: DONE update resume to add system design flex - Jun 12th, 2022 collapsed:: true - Applied to 8 Jobs today. Total Application 13. - DONE reach out to @Vito Chesky Boston recruiter :LOGBOOK: CLOCK: [2022-06-12 Sun 09:26:03]--[2022-06-12 Sun 11:40:09] => 02:14:06 :END: - DONE respond to @adeel mallick intro email collapsed:: true DEADLINE: <2022-06-12 Sun> - Jun 11th, 2022 DONE scout 10 more jobs