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3 Steps to Ace Your Competitive Job Interviews

Hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi

Tue, Jan 27, 2026

9:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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What you'll learn

How to Differentiate in a Crowded Market

In 2021, it was about showing up to the interview. In 2026, it's about standing out among dozens of qualified peers.

"Tell Me About Yourself"

The personal pitch is the key to the interview, no matter your functional area or your seniority. Let's fix yours.

Where Most Candidates Fail

Your preparation is probably lacking -- let's talk about a framework for research that will set you apart.

Why this topic matters

The tech market in 2026 is hard. And once you do have an interview, you don't want to waste that shot on goal. You have to showcase the right combination of soft skills, technical savvy, cross-functional capability -- now, with added AI modalities. Let's dig in!

You'll learn from

Sherveen Mashayekhi

Founder & CEO @ Free Agency, AI Product Leader & Investor

Sherveen brings unique insight from all sides of the hiring equation, having built AI-powered recruiting technology and led product development at major startups like Toptal and Stella.

For a majority of his career, he's also been uniquely focused on the candidate side of the equation. He previously founded JobHero, a job search tracker with 100k+ enthusiastic users, and is now the founder and CEO of Free Agency.

Through Free Agency (backed by prominent investors like Maveron, Bloomberg Beta, Kevin Durant, Kygo), he now helps job seekers navigate the modern hiring landscape to land top of market roles. Since 2019, clients of Free Agency have won over $400M in job offers and landed at top companies like OpenAI, Amazon, American Express, Stripe, YouTube, Netflix, and hundreds more.

Clients hired at companies like...

OpenAI
YouTube
Ramp
Notion
Salesforce

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