Reflections on 2023
2023 was a very interesting year for me. The major highlight of the year was that i got laid off from my job at Google, a job which i was very proud of getting and doing. I got the news when i was sitting with Praveen at Coconut Groove at 11 pm one February night. This was not the first time i had gotten fired - i had been fired from my job at Flipkart as well. But this was different - this was for not fault of my own, despite being good at my job and within just 9 months of starting the job. This lay off was in Feb'23, so just when the year had started. Most of the following 4 to 5 months has been me interviewing to find another job. My first instinct was to try to join back redBus, a job that i had enjoyed more than any other i had. But they were not hiring then. I must have appeared for 150+ interviews over the course of these 4 to 5 months, and i ended up with 2 job offers - from Freshwork and Betterplace. These would not have been companies i would not have keenly considered ...