To my friends who are currently job-hunting right now - a reminder that there's always luck involved.
I find the above reminder helps relieve unnecessary stress for me - things don't always work out and that's totally fine
Hardwork and prep can reduce the number of factors that are out of your control (luck) but can never bring it 0.
A 2022 equity/product take: H&M's free 24-hour suit rental removed one job-search barrier; the bigger opportunity is access to the rest of the interview stack.
A 2021 distribution thesis: Microsoft Teams grew through enterprise-default distribution; Salesforce could give Slack a comparable enterprise curve if the product was strong enough.
A small, counter-intuitive habit: listing yourself first on a 1:1 invite means a truncated notification still shows the other person their own name.