Also… I see you used Pictos for the icons :) so I played a hand there too lol

I have quite a few of these. Me passing up a role on the Orchestra team that would eventually become Mailbox and acquired by Dropbox.

do you mean like… MILLIONS of levels “great” 😂

lollll. Right!? Love his tenacity. 😂🔥

Here’s me ghosting WhatsApp in 2012 😭 I was an arrogant dumb shit designer still, clinging to my mint.com success, who thought it wouldn’t be a good place to work because the app was ugly

I needed this thread. Thank you so much. Just seeing you’ve all done these same retrospective oops. I have similar where I turned down Airbnb head of design in 2010 and they instead got one of our more junior engineers, joe, who turned out to be an amazing leader for the company.

I turned down a lead product design role at Careem in 2015. 

A few years later the guy who took the job tried to recruit me as senior designer. His name is also Mohammad Imran, and he’s pakistani like me. 🙃

They later merged with Uber and become a super app in the east.

Hahaha damnnnn, I feel u on this. Missing Stripe is pretty brutal. I have two similar receipts (DoorDash & Notion) which sting pretty bad lol

Tbf, he was a younger, prettier version of me 😆

Billy McFerland was my client once. He still owes me money. Fyre fest guy.

Oof, I’m trying to think if I have any of those. I turned down a job working on the Sunrise calendar app and then Microsoft bought them. Still friends with those guys though!

when I was 13/14, Google reached out to me for an interview. I purchased CS books, studied up, and was so excited. you can imagine my disappointment when the recruiter realized my age and had to break the news that they weren’t going to be able to continue with the process. 🥲

Things turned out pretty great for me.. but that woulda been a whole other level of “great” lol

A few years ago, I came very close to landing a job at Shopify, but I was denied since I lived in a country they were unable to employ me in and the role didn't allow for relocation due to the level of seniority. 🤦‍♂️🥺

Tell me (or everyone here) a fun story from your past as a designer 🗣️

I’ll go first:
In 2011 the CEO of Stripe asked me if I wanted to come on board as the 2nd(?) designer. 
I told him thanks, but nah… I was working on stuff I loved. 🤦‍♂️

I made his pitch deck for Magnesis. His credit card before the Fyre.

However I’m proud to say I’ve been turning Facebook down since 2005 pre-Julie and they can still fuck off into the sun

Is recent past relevant? One of my last design interviews in November resulted in feedback about not having experience with “complex b2b flows.”

The last ten years of my life is b2b software only. It’s what I literally specialize in.

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