🎯 Career Fit

95%

Fit Score

This exceptional fit score reflects a strong alignment between your personality, values, and career goals. Here are the key insights that contributed to this high match:

Key Personality Insights

You're driven by building products that solve real problems and create social impact, showing a deep sense of purpose beyond technical challenges.
Your combination of full-stack development skills, system architecture expertise, and natural leadership makes you uniquely positioned for senior technical roles.
You value collaborative environments with sustainable pace, indicating you prioritize both impact and work-life balance—a rare and valuable trait.

💼 Career Recommendations

Staff Engineer at High-Growth B2B SaaS Startup (Series B-C)

$$$$

Notion

Figma

Vercel

Why this fits: Strong alignment with your Work dimension (building impactful products with purpose), Play dimension (technical challenges that energize you), Love dimension (collaborative, innovative team culture), and Health dimension (sustainable pace with growth opportunity). Excellent economics ($180k+ total comp with equity upside) and leverages your technical leadership competencies.
Why these companies: These companies are scaling rapidly and need technical leaders to build core platform features.
Salary: $160-200k This salary is significantly above the industry average for similar roles.

Fit Score 95%

Founding Engineer at Mission-Driven Climate Tech Startup

$$$

Watershed

Recoolit

Crusoe Energy

Why this fits: Exceptional alignment with Work dimension (social impact, building from scratch), Play dimension (generalist building challenges), Love dimension (mission-driven culture), with trade-off on economics in short-term for long-term upside. Strong competency match for generalist builder roles.
Why these companies: These companies are looking for senior engineers who can build foundational systems from scratch.
Salary: $130-160k This salary is competitive with the industry average for similar roles.

Fit Score 90%

Engineering Manager at Product-Led Growth Company (Slack, Zoom, Canva)

$$$$

Slack

Zoom

Canva

Why this fits: Strong fit for Work dimension (career growth into leadership), excellent economics, good Love dimension alignment (team culture), leverages your mentoring strengths and Play dimension (leadership challenges).
Why these companies: These companies need engineering managers who understand product and can build great teams.
Salary: $170-220k This salary is significantly above the industry average for similar roles.

Fit Score 85%

💡 Additional Recommendations

Build Strategic Network in Target Companies & Get Warm Referrals

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Connect with 10-15 engineers and engineering managers at your target companies (Series B SaaS or climate tech startups) through LinkedIn, Twitter, and alumni networks. Have coffee chats to understand their culture, projects, and hiring needs. Warm referrals increase interview rate from 2% to 40% and give you inside information about team dynamics and opportunities. Focus on Berkeley alumni network and tech conference speakers in your interest areas.

Timeline: Start this week - dedicate 3-4 hours weekly for next 2 months

Impact: Critical for accessing best opportunities before they're publicly posted. Increases offer rate and quality of role fit. Essential foundation for any career transition.

Develop Strategic Product & Business Acumen

medium

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Your technical skills are excellent, but to maximize impact in your target roles (Staff Engineer or Founding Engineer), deepen your product strategy and business acumen. Read "Inspired" by Marty Cagan, follow product leaders on Twitter, and volunteer to lead a feature from customer discovery through launch metrics. Understanding unit economics, user acquisition, and retention will make you invaluable in product-focused engineering roles and significantly increase your compensation potential.

Timeline: 3 months - read 2 books, lead 1 feature end-to-end, attend 2 product meetups

Impact: Elevates you from "strong engineer" to "strategic technical leader" - increases compensation by $20-40k and makes you competitive for Staff+ roles. Essential for founding engineer positions.

Create "Investment Thesis" One-Pager for Target Companies

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Rather than mass applying, create a one-page document outlining why you're specifically excited about 5-7 target companies, what you'd build there, and how your background aligns. Send this with personalized messages to hiring managers. This approach has 10x response rate vs standard applications, demonstrates initiative and product thinking, and helps you stand out. Include specific feature ideas, architectural improvements, or growth strategies you'd pursue.

Timeline: Create this within 2 weeks, iterate based on responses

Impact: Dramatically increases response rate from target companies, positions you as strategic thinker, and makes your applications memorable. Critical for competitive Staff Engineer and Founding Engineer roles.

🎯 Areas for Growth

Work

medium

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Need more specific financial milestones and timeline for wealth-building goals within your Work dimension

Impact: May miss opportunities to negotiate equity and long-term compensation effectively

Love

low

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Could benefit from deeper exploration of company stage preferences (startup vs established) within your Love dimension

Impact: Might not fully optimize for ideal company culture fit