Find your next job. A practical job-search process for software engineers.

Find Your Next Job is a practical job-search system created specifically for software engineers.

If you are sending applications and getting ignored, the answer is not always to apply more. You may be targeting the wrong roles, presenting generic evidence, relying too heavily on job portals, or reaching interviews before you are ready.

This ebook helps you identify where your job search is breaking and build a focused campaign around the opportunities that genuinely fit your experience and ambitions.

Inside, you will learn how to:

- Define your Career North Star and choose the right next move.

- Separate ready-now opportunities from bridge and future roles.

- Turn your CV and LinkedIn profile into clear evidence of impact.

- Select roles strategically instead of applying indiscriminately.

- Reach recruiters, hiring managers, and engineers with messages worth answering.

- Track your campaign and improve one variable at a time.

- Understand the most common technical and behavioral interview formats.

- Ask questions that reveal what working at the company is really like.

You will also get practical worksheets, templates, outreach examples, trackers, and exercises you can apply immediately.

This is not another collection of generic job-search tips. It is a repeatable system for making better career decisions, presenting your value clearly, and turning your search into measurable progress.

Created by Carlos Alonso, a Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB and former Amazon engineer. Carlos used these principles to land a role at Amazon, later move into database internals at MongoDB, and refine his approach through more than 100 technical interviews conducted from the other side of the table.