When Oracle laid them off with two years of experience on the resume, the Reddit user did not panic. They built a plan.
Every day, they applied to ten to fifteen roles across company career pages, LinkedIn, and job boards — always keeping their profile tagged "immediate joiner." Every day, they studied data structures and algorithms for three to four hours. And in the gaps, they taught themselves AI engineering from scratch: transformers, attention mechanisms, the full stack. Claude helped build the curriculum.
Within 45 days, three offers arrived. The candidate accepted an AI engineer role, having jumped from enterprise Java to the frontier of the field in under two months. The post, shared to r/developersIndia, became a reference point for anyone asking what a disciplined job search actually looks like.