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AI Job Search: My $340K Headway Offer, Including a $20K Sign-On
How I used AI to improve my resume, find matching software engineering roles, and apply, leading to a $340K Headway offer that includes a $20K sign-on bonus.
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Shorts I filmed while building NexusTrade.
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2:48Transcript
How I used AI to improve my resume, find matching software engineering roles, and apply, leading to a $340K Headway offer that includes a $20K sign-on bonus.
2:24Transcript
How to write a technical design document: understand the task, weigh trade-offs, learn your company's stack, then fill an 8-section template, without AI.
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How a software engineer uses Codex to find remote, high-paying jobs, apply directly on company sites, and land offers at Coinbase, Figma and Headway.
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Why a software engineer with a $350K offer skips GitHub job repos and uses LinkedIn sparingly when looking for software engineering jobs.
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How to pass the AI coding interview: understand the codebase with a diagram, plan, review the plan out loud, and finish with test-driven development.
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A software engineer's three steps to negotiating a $210K base salary and a $20K sign-on bonus: interviews, rare expertise, and a competing offer.
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Why a software engineer turned down Figma for Headway, a Series D startup: the recruiting process, a side project policy, and a $210K offer.
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The 3 skills that got me a $300K big tech software engineering job: AI-driven development, systems design, and solving LeetCode mediums in 20 minutes.
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I got a Figma software engineer offer after six months of LeetCode and system design prep. Around $300K a year, with Figma's revenue and gross profit growth.
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Eight system design interview steps that take one app from a single server to one million users: cache, replicas, a CDN, a queue, then shards.