The Things I Said I’d Never Do

Four Months, Thirty Interviews, One Humble Pie

The Exit

Left my company on July 4th. Independence Day if you’re from the states.

The plan was to chill for a bit, then work on my startup. Star Labs and I were prototyping products, iterating on a Reddit consultant thing that eventually didn’t work out. Had a mesh of unorganized thoughts, talked to a bunch of people to organize them.

A veteran entrepreneur who recently raised 5M$ told me to always have a year’s worth of savings to have a clear mind. I had like 4 months of it but didn’t think it through well enough.

Another close friend at a party told me to just bare through it and try my hands at things as he was supposed to do the same.

After all these thoughts, advice, self introspection, I realized it’s better to gain more experience, insight and wisdom before doing this again.

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The Hunt

Started job hunting after being on break for around 1.5 months. Gave some interviews, got to final rounds in some, got rejected a lot. Almost went to Indonesia 🇮🇩.

A product demo I put up on LinkedIn got me some interviews and invite to a tech party 🍕

Finally got a considerable offer in the 1st week of September and joined in the 2nd week but wasn’t having a lot of fun there so I kept interviewing.

After interviewing at almost 10 places and giving 30 interviews, I got an offer from Microsoft.

Never thought I would be going to an MNC. Had been a pure startup guy till then, even my friends would say that. Kinda content though, gave me a tag which I didn’t really have for most of my life.

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The Pattern

One thing I realized through all this was all the things that I never imagined / hated happened to me.

Never wanted to work 6 days a week, life humbled me as I had to do it.

Never wanted to go away from Bangalore, happened again.

Never thought / aimed at joining an MNC, happened again (positive though).

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The Move

Now it’s a new chapter. New state, new role. Already moved my stuff from Bangalore to Hyderabad this month and I’ll probably be moving again as I found a flat.

Hyderabad is pretty nice though. Good infrastructure, traffic management, cheaper cost of living. I kinda miss the extravagant Bangalore vibe though. Too early to give a verdict. It’s been 2 weeks.

Funny how life works. You say you’ll never do something and then you end up doing exactly that. Maybe that’s the point.

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