Ask HN: My startup bit the dust. No other experience. What should I do now?

* If I were interviewing you, I'd be concerned about whether you could take orders from a supervisor, and, more generally, work well with people that you didn't hand select. (Side note: are you good at those things, OP? It's ok if you're not, but it should frame your search). Is there a way you can take on a project where you aren't the boss?

* Have you processed the grief and loss over your previous startup, and are you really ready to jump back in to another thing? I'd wonder this if I were interviewing you, thinking that maybe you were looking for a rebound job but didn't really have your heart in it. Not sure how you would assuage that, except for taking some time off and working on some personal projects, ML-related or not.

* How much work would it be to turn your IP into an arXiv paper and accompanying well-documented repo? My own bias: I would look very favorably on this kind of work, because it shows 'public-midnedness', if you will. Bonus points if you can co-author with someone and not be first author (to point #1 above).

Good luck!

* Starting engineering at FAANG/other large companies

* Management at startup

In my experience, in case of large companies, if you go well on the interviews for a higher role (senior/mgmnt) you may hear "we like you but you don't have experience working at this scale". This doesn't mean you don't get an offer, just that it may not be as high as expectations.

Adding to your list:

* Checking crunchbase to see which companies recently raised money -> most of them start hiring immediatelly after and there are thousands of them

* If the company is not a giant, FAANG like, and you know some of their stack (by reading blog posts and such) you can contribute to some OSS they use and bring that up on your resume/interview. This is more spearfishing than throwing a net, but it helps if you have known 'targets'

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