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title: "Why Spray-and-Pray Job Applications Hurt Your Tech Career"
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# Why Spray-and-Pray Job Applications Hurt Your Tech Career

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders — S12 Bonus: Why Spray-and-Pray Job Applications Are Quietly Destroying Your Tech Career Momentum with Ashwin Agrawal, Founder & CEO of MobiusEngine Listen to Episode S12 Bonus: Why Spray-and-Pray Job Applications Are Quietly Destroying Your Tech Career Momentum with Ashwin Agrawal, Founder & CEO of MobiusEngine Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders 0:00 24:49 1× Ashwin Agrawal came to the US when he was 17, to Rochester for school. He now lives in the Bay Area, and admits he misses his friends on the east coast, as they all stayed back in that area - but he does NOT miss the winters. He has been building his current venture for 3-4 years, and prior to that, he was as at Google for a decade, apart of Google Cloud's huge growth trajectory. Outside of tech, he has a family with 2 middle school sons, with whom he likes to spend a lot of time with, hiking or eating good sushi. Ashwin was laid off from a few jobs in the past. After experiencing this, he vowed to build a solution that would help people going through this sort of experience. After the last layoff, he formed his company at 4:30 am in the morning, to help anyone in point A wanting to go to point B. This is the creation story of MobiusEngine.ai . Sponsors Unblocked (https://getunblocked.com/codestory) TECH Domains (https://get.tech/codestory) Mezmo (https://mezmo.com/codestory) Braingrid.ai (https://braingrid.link/code-story) Links https://mobiusengine.ai/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/agrawalashwin/ Our Sponsors: * Check out Cash App and use my code CASHAPP10 for a great deal: https://cash.app * Check out Plaud AI and use my code CODESTORY for a great deal: https://plaud.ai Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Latest Season of the Podcast is Sponsored By