Ganesh Karthik Sankar interviewed at all five MAANG companies during his job search. He accepted an offer at Amazon but kept interviewing, later joining Google. His top advice: position yourself as an ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ganesh Karthik Sankar, a 29-year-old UX designer at Google who previously worked at Amazon as a product designer. He lives in Seattle. The ...