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  • A year into working remotely – A retrospective 💭

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    In mid-late 2020, I left what most people would consider a very cushy and stable job: a software engineer position at a big tech unicorn. It definitely was not an easy decision to make, but considering that I tend to overthink and worry about stuff, it was a decision that I was surprisingly very confident in.

    This writing serves as a personal reflection and retrospective of my journey from the past couple of years, which hopefully might be of interest to some people.

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  • 6 Things I Learned during my Remote Job Search

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    I recently landed my first remote job as a software engineer! 🎉

    The past few weeks, some of my friends reached out to ask about stuff like how I found the job, what I did during the process to land the job, etc. I feel like this is something that more people might be interested in, so I thought I would write about what I learned during the process, and hopefully it will help you too! You can think of this as a semi-tutorial on how to look for remote jobs.

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