The LinkedIn Engineer
Giovanni LaganàAre you a Software Engineer who hates the idea of "selling yourself"? This newsletter is for you.
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They had €10K more for you
A recruiter told this story recently, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.
A senior developer. Strong candidate. Passed all the interviews. Got the offer.
And accepted it immediately — €10,000 below the approved range — beca...
Do Cover Letters matter in 2026?
Let’s start with the basics.
A cover letter is a short document you attach to a job application, alongside your CV. Its purpose? To introduce yourself, explain why you’re applying, and add some context that a resume alone can’t convey.
Fo...
What the last Meta layoff teaches us
Meta just cut around 8,000 jobs, about 10% of its global workforce, and froze roughly 6,000 open roles, all while reallocating about 7,000 people to AI teams and data-center workstreams.
Wall Street is happy, the stock likes “efficiency”,...
How to ace a behavioural interview
Most engineers still think the behavioural interview is the easy part.
You spend weeks on LeetCode, system design videos, mock coding sessions, and then freeze when someone asks:
“Tell me about a time you had a conflict with a teammate.”...
Did your LinkedIn impressions drop?
If your posts used to hit 5,000 impressions and now stop at 800, you are not alone.
Multiple analyses across millions of posts show that LinkedIn reach has dropped roughly 40–50 percent in the last year for most creators.
This is not a bu...
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Software Engineer @ TheFork. Thanks to my obsession for networking, today I receive hundreds of job proposals every year. I am willing to share the insights I have gathered so far to those that struggle to sell themselves.
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