Saurabh Chaudhary

Head of Marketing, Wolf Mentoring

Leads marketing and everything we publish here: the success stories, the guides, and even this page! He also leads a team of SDRs and his favourite activity is putting leads in the CRM. He even wanted to end this text with a CTA but was told off, so instead he wrote: "We don't live lives, we write stories; for what is a man but the sum of his memories?"

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31 posts by Saurabh

November 3, 2026Layoffs and the job marketSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Does hitting your targets make you layoff-proof? The Dropbox case
Dropbox is cutting 9% of its workforce while telling investors its third-quarter revenue and margin should come in at or above guidance. For senior engineering and product leaders, hitting financial targets doesn't guarantee your organization, budget or executive sponsor will survive the next restructuring.
November 1, 2026Layoffs and the job marketSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Meta has 12,000 fewer employees and 26% more revenue
Meta grew revenue 26% in Q3 2026 and ended the year with roughly 12,000 fewer employees, while spending $34.9 billion on servers, data centers and networking in one quarter. Record revenue doesn't necessarily come with record job security.
November 1, 2026Layoffs and the job marketSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Microsoft's buyout offer to 60,000 employees: what to check first
Microsoft is offering 60,000 employees money to leave while preparing to spend $175 billion on AI infrastructure this year. If you're considering one of these packages, check the actual terms and start mapping your next role before the deadline, not after your last day.
October 31, 2026Tech and AI newsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Anthropic's $80.7 billion loss: the accounting catch, explained
Anthropic lost $80.7 billion in six months, but about $72 billion of that loss wasn't money it actually spent. The actual spending is still bonkers: nearly $9 billion on computing and infrastructure in six months.
October 30, 2026Tech and AI newsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Microsoft and Epic love AI, until it copies their games
Microsoft and Epic Games love AI, until AI starts copying their games. For engineering and product leaders, this is where AI governance gets interesting: who owns the code your tools generate, and what training data went into the model?
October 28, 2026Tech and AI newsSaurabh Chaudhary1 min read
Network infrastructure deserves more credit in the age of AI
Beneath every prompt sits a divinely complicated network infrastructure, from WiFi and optic cables to cell towers, underwater cables and satellites, that is taken for granted every time you press enter.
October 27, 2026Tech and AI newsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Why Google DeepMind researchers are resigning over military AI
Researchers at Google DeepMind are resigning over Google's growing involvement in military AI. For CTOs and AI leaders, if you hire researchers to build responsible AI, be prepared for them to ask what responsible means when your biggest customers come calling.
October 26, 2026Layoffs and the job marketSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Amazon's 300,000 holiday hires and 30,000 corporate job cuts
Amazon is hiring 300,000 people for the holidays and has cut roughly 30,000 corporate jobs since last October. Business growth doesn't automatically translate into demand for every kind of employee.
October 26, 2026Layoffs and the job marketSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
October 2026 tech job market: what Indeed's numbers show
Overall US job postings are up 2.8% from a year ago, but software development postings are still roughly 21% below their pre-pandemic level, while data-center-related postings are up 147% since June 2024.
October 24, 2026Tech and AI newsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
eMudhra's weak certificate keys: what happened and why it matters
Eight intermediate certificates belonging to eMudhra, a certificate authority trusted by major browsers, had private keys so weak they could be recovered in less than a second: 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230 and 237.
October 22, 2026Tech and AI newsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
PHP2Shell: the critical PHP flaws AI found, explained
On October 21, researchers disclosed two critical PHP vulnerabilities, called PHP2Shell, that could let an attacker execute malicious code on a vulnerable website's server. Frontier AI models helped uncover bugs that had existed for more than a decade.
October 17, 2026Getting interviewsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Do auto-apply tools work for senior tech job seekers?
A recruiter on Reddit explained why auto-apply tools can sabotage your job search, and the evidence on whether they work is mixed. At Director or VP level, a good search needs positioning, targeted applications with hiring-manager outreach, and follow-ups with interview preparation.
October 11, 2026Getting interviewsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Laid off while former coworkers get promoted: what to do next
Getting laid off while the people you believe worked against you get promoted can mess with your head. Here's how to handle it: breathe, get specific about what you want, apply where you're an excellent fit, find the people hiring, and follow up.
October 5, 2026Tech and AI newsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
How long do AI chips last? Nvidia and Wall Street disagree
Nvidia says its GPUs can keep generating revenue for up to a decade, while most lenders assume three to four years. Hundreds of billions in AI infrastructure quietly depend on which side is right.
October 2, 2026Tech and AI newsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Meta's Muse AI agent shared a seller's home address
A YouTuber asked Meta's Muse agent to sell a keyboard on Facebook Marketplace. It accepted a lower offer and sent his pickup address to the buyer without him knowing, which makes permission management the biggest AI engineering problem today.
September 30, 2026Getting interviewsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Fake job postings on LinkedIn: how to spot them
One job seeker says he has helped get nearly 60,000 fake LinkedIn listings removed. Check the company's careers page, verify the recruiter, look at the email domain, and be careful when someone asks for money, documents or personal information.
September 26, 2026Tech and AI newsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Snorkel AI's $3.5 billion valuation and the AI jobs around the model
Snorkel AI raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation on demand for complex AI training data. The AI job market is expanding sideways, into data, evaluation, infrastructure, security and deployment around the model.
September 25, 2026Tech and AI newsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Amazon blocks Meta's Muse: the engineering problem AI agents create
Amazon blocked Meta's Muse agent from Amazon.com, saying it accessed the site without authorization. Software built for a human at the screen now has to handle agents, and someone has to build the identity, permissions and guardrails they need.
September 24, 2026Tech and AI newsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Gemini hacked three companies during a security test
Reuters reported that Google's Gemini accessed the internet and hacked three real companies during a cybersecurity evaluation in May. AI systems are moving from answering questions to taking actions, and security models will have to change with them.
September 4, 2026Layoffs and the job marketSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Uber laid off 10% after its best quarter ever. Here's why
Uber cut 10% of its workforce while posting $14.2B in quarterly revenue. Underneath the language about organizational health is a strategy: move capital and people out of lower-leverage layers and into AI, autonomous vehicles and acquisitions.
September 3, 2026Layoffs and the job marketSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Why Big Tech's AI data center spending puts tech leaders at risk
Big Tech is committing hundreds of billions to GPUs and data centers, and when a business spends that kind of money every other budget comes under a microscope. Executives now want leaders who can own entire verticals with deep hands-on knowledge.
August 15, 2026Getting interviewsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Landing IC interviews as a Director? Two things to change
A Director of Platform Engineering kept landing individual contributor roles until we changed two things: positioning him around the business problems and scale he'd handled, and applying only where he was a strong fit. He landed 11 VP of Platform Engineering interviews in two months.
August 13, 2026Getting interviewsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
How to write an outreach email that lands Director+ interviews
A 4-step method for writing to a hiring manager: figure out the problem they're hiring for, find the 2 or 3 things you've done that solve it, give enough proof to believe you, and make the ask ridiculously easy.
August 12, 2026Layoffs and the job marketSaurabh Chaudhary1 min read
Tech layoffs in 2026 have already passed all of 2025
Layoffs.fyi counted 122,606 US tech layoffs across 278 tracked companies in all of 2025. By August 12, 2026, this year's count had crossed 126K with five months to go.
August 7, 2026Getting interviewsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Three job search habits that keep senior tech leaders stuck
The leaders struggling most in the tech job market are relying on referrals, rewriting their resume for every application, or passively looking. Companies making fewer bets want specialists with a clear reputation.
August 3, 2026Layoffs and the job marketSaurabh Chaudhary1 min read
Apple's 10% share drop and why it matters to your job
Apple shares fell almost 10% on soaring component costs and supply shortages. Whatever affects your company's financials affects you, so ask yourself whether you're prepared to part ways with your company at a moment's notice.
August 3, 2026Getting interviewsSaurabh Chaudhary1 min read
Passively looking for a job? Here's what that really means
In today's market, 'passively looking' usually means waiting for a bag of money to fall into your lap. People believe the pain of applying is greater than the pain their current role is causing them, and they're wrong.
July 28, 2026Getting interviewsSaurabh Chaudhary4 min read
How we find the hiring manager behind any job posting
The 7-step process we use for every role we apply to: read the job description for clues, understand the company's size and hierarchy, search by department, validate your guess, search beyond the posting, find a verified email, and reach out with something that proves you did your homework.
July 21, 2026Getting interviewsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Why your job applications aren't getting responses: 7 reasons
After applying to 4,000+ jobs for clients, these are the reasons applications go unanswered, and what to do about them: apply only to close fits, show your niche expertise, apply quickly, and connect with the hiring manager when you are a great fit.
July 16, 2026Getting interviewsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
Jobs aren't hidden, you are: standing out on a public posting
Most senior tech roles are public postings that attract hundreds of applicants within days. The application is where the work begins: find the people responsible for the hire and show them how you solve the problem they're hiring for.
July 8, 2026Getting interviewsSaurabh Chaudhary2 min read
The best time to look for a job is when you don't need one
Executive roles open unpredictably, and the leaders who land them already have their positioning ready. This Senior Director came to us needing better pay fast and left within 40 days with a Senior Director of IT role, total comp up from $190K to $250K.

Saurabh Chaudhary

31 posts by Saurabh

Does hitting your targets make you layoff-proof? The Dropbox case

Meta has 12,000 fewer employees and 26% more revenue

Microsoft's buyout offer to 60,000 employees: what to check first

Anthropic's $80.7 billion loss: the accounting catch, explained

Microsoft and Epic love AI, until it copies their games

Network infrastructure deserves more credit in the age of AI

Why Google DeepMind researchers are resigning over military AI

Amazon's 300,000 holiday hires and 30,000 corporate job cuts

October 2026 tech job market: what Indeed's numbers show

eMudhra's weak certificate keys: what happened and why it matters

PHP2Shell: the critical PHP flaws AI found, explained

Do auto-apply tools work for senior tech job seekers?

Laid off while former coworkers get promoted: what to do next

How long do AI chips last? Nvidia and Wall Street disagree

Meta's Muse AI agent shared a seller's home address

Fake job postings on LinkedIn: how to spot them

Snorkel AI's $3.5 billion valuation and the AI jobs around the model

Amazon blocks Meta's Muse: the engineering problem AI agents create

Gemini hacked three companies during a security test

Uber laid off 10% after its best quarter ever. Here's why

Why Big Tech's AI data center spending puts tech leaders at risk

Landing IC interviews as a Director? Two things to change

How to write an outreach email that lands Director+ interviews

Tech layoffs in 2026 have already passed all of 2025

Three job search habits that keep senior tech leaders stuck

Apple's 10% share drop and why it matters to your job

Passively looking for a job? Here's what that really means

How we find the hiring manager behind any job posting

Why your job applications aren't getting responses: 7 reasons

Jobs aren't hidden, you are: standing out on a public posting

The best time to look for a job is when you don't need one