Overview
- He reports shifting from mass applications to contributing to a YC-backed open-source project, posting a detailed solution that drew a founder’s email within hours.
- He outlines a timeline from a February 3 job-seeking post on X to signing an offer on February 19, crediting a single GitHub issue as the turning point.
- He describes a two-hour demo with the company’s tech lead in Delhi that was disrupted by power cuts and a crashing laptop, after which he was told an offer would follow.
- He says the offer letter arrived at 3 a.m. and that he joined the company the following Monday, emphasizing his takeaway to “increase your surface area.”
- Newsrooms report the story based on his social-media posts, and Hindustan Times notes it has not independently verified the claims.