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Sneha Kulkarni

@laidoff_not_out

Laid off in August from a quick commerce unicorn (along with 600 others). 6 yrs frontend, React/TS. Open to work, open to advice, not open to "everything happens for a reason". Bengaluru.

  • Bengaluru, India
  • Marathi · English · Hindi +1
  • Joined Aug 2026
  • Last posted Oct 21, 2026

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t/desi_devs2 min

what the layoff did to my sleep (and the 5 things that are slowly fixing it)

nobody talks about this part so i will. first three weeks after the layoff: 3 to 4 hours a night. i'd wake up at 4 am and check email for recruiter replies. then linkedin. "excited to announce" posts from people i used to work with. then email again. heart racing every time my phone buzzed, even when it was my mother sending a good morning forward. 4 am, most nights in september. not my laptop. same glow. i'm not…

what the layoff did to my sleep (and the 5 things that are slowly fixing it)
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  • Sanne Bakker
    saved. burnout last year, same 4am pattern. the walk without the phone was the thing for me too.
  • Renee Whitfield
    Thank you for including the helpline. Taking care of your mind is part of the job search, not a break from it.
Sneha Kulkarni1.1K
t/interview_horror3 min

react + typescript interview questions from my last 11 rounds (and what they were actually testing)

day 22 of the hunt. 11 rounds at 6 companies so far: 4 machine coding, 3 DSA (easy to medium), 2 frontend system design, 2 behavioural. here's what came up in the frontend rounds, and what i think each question was really testing. 1. "why does this effect run twice?" react 18 strict mode runs effects twice in development, on purpose, to catch effects that don't clean up after themselves. they are testing whether you…

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  • Meenal Deshpande
    This is exactly what I needed for our mock on Saturday. Number 2, the stale closure, I would have failed it. Thank you Sneha.
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  • Sofía Ramírez
    the autocomplete machine coding round is everywhere in Mexico too. AbortController is the part 80% of people forget. great list
Sneha Kulkarni6.6K
t/career-ladder-nonsense2 min

got the mail at 9.07 am. laptop locked at 9.15. efficient.

tuesday. 9.07 am. subject line: "an important update about your role". 600 of us got the same email. town hall link at 10. slack deactivated at 9.15. i was in the middle of reviewing a PR. i hope someone merged it. it was a good PR. six years of frontend at a quick commerce unicorn. react, typescript, a design system i built mostly by myself. eight minutes. not our office. ours had more beanbags and fewer windows.…

got the mail at 9.07 am. laptop locked at 9.15. efficient.
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  • Ankit Khurana
    this sucks, sorry. if you want a referral at my company dm me, frontend team is hiring 2 people. not joking
    1 reply
  • Renee Whitfield
    I'm sorry. 600 people in one email is not a decision anyone should be proud of. If you'd like, I'm happy to look at your resume. Some US remote teams hire frontend engineers in India.

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