Hey everyone,

Full disclosure right up front: I work with the team at Interview Kickstart.

Given how brutal the tech job market has been lately, especially with quiet application pipelines and candidate ghosting, we put together a free live session called the Bounceback Toolkit to help folks navigate the current climate.

It’s built specifically for tech professionals (engineers, PMs, DevOps, data pros) trying to restart their search or break through stalled applications.
The session also includes a live Q&A with a Talent Acquisition Manager (ex-Meta) and a Senior Quality Engineer (ex-Amazon).

📍 Free registration link: https://interviewkickstart.com/events/bounceback-toolkit?utm_source=social&utm_medium=reddit&utm_campaign=L10x_social_reddit_bouncebacktoolkit

Full disclosure upfront: I work at Interview Kickstart. Sharing because I genuinely think this is underreported and useful.

The Forward Deployed Engineer role is exploding — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Palantir, and Microsoft are all hiring hard for it and most people don't have a clear picture of what the job actually involves. We analysed 500+ FDE job descriptions and built a free masterclass around the findings.

June 10, 5 PM PST. The speaker is Sanjay Dhar (Cloud and AI Solutions leader at Microsoft) who's going to walk through the 5-phase FDE work cycle, what the interview looks like, and what the salary map looks like across frontier labs.

Free to attend, free resource afterwards (the FDE Pivot Blueprint). No credit card. Link: https://interviewkickstart.com/events/fde_roadmap?utm_source=social&utm_medium=reddit&utm_campaign=L10x_social_reddit_fde_roadmap

Full disclosure: I work at Interview Kickstart and helped put this together, so take that for what it is. That said, the content is genuinely free and there's no pitch baked into the event itself.

The panel is called Resurge 2026. It's happening May 12th, 6–8 PM PT. We're covering three things: what the actual 2026 hiring data looks like (jobs are coming back but AI fluency is now basically required), what the AI skill stack looks like by domain, and how interviews have changed at FAANG+ companies in the last 12 months.

Panelists are senior people from Microsoft, Amazon, Instacart, and Expedia — all actively hiring or recently interviewing candidates.

Free to attend, free resources afterward (AI stack guide and self-assessment rubric). Register here if interested: https://interviewkickstart.com/events/resurge2026?utm_source=social&utm_medium=reddit&utm_campaign=L10X_Social_Resurge_reddit9may

Hey everyone, full disclosure: I work at Interview Kickstart. I’m posting here because we’ve been tracking a huge spike in what we’re calling "AI Fatigue" among senior folks—that feeling that the face pace of AI is making 10+ years of hard-earned expertise feel like a liability.

We’re hosting a free event called AI Navigator 2026 specifically for mid-to-senior levels (10+ YOE). The goals is to help identify the 2-3 AI tools that actually provide 95% of the value for your specific domain (SWE, DevOps, Data) so you can ignore the rest of the noise.

This event will have a live panel of mentors from top tier US tech companies to answer any questions you may have on dealing with AI Fatigue. No fluff, just a 90-day roadmap. If you're tired of the hype and just want a tool stack that works, come join us. It's free.

https://interviewkickstart.com/events/ainavigator2026?utm_source=social&utm_medium=reddit&utm_campaign=L10x_ainavigator_social_reddit