Survive the AI tech hiring winter ⛄️

A comprehensive new eBook to get you through the grind 📚

Late last year I went independent. My wife gave me 100 days to get to sustainability.

My numbers were going up and to the right, and I was on top of the world.

But then, in late December 2025, I got a job.

I never told you why. Really.

My first motivation was financial: I crunched some numbers on a spreadsheet, and I’d struggle to break even before going bankrupt. I know how it goes.

But that’s just short-term downside risk.

Long-term, who the f&ck knows what the job market is going to look like?

Best to hitch my wagon to a muscly horse. Or, in my case, a unicorn 🦄

The way I see it, there’s two ways to safeguard your career future from the risk of AI disruption:

• Play defence: Becoming way more knowledgeable than average.

• Play offence: Position yourself in a company that will survive.

I’m here to help you with both of those things.

Introducing…

Land your iOS Tech Job
(Jacob’s survival guide for the modern interview grind)

This is a comprehensive 109-page guidebook helping you prep for each stage of the big tech hiring process: from technical screenings, to system design, and the mysterious “iOS coding” interview.

It’s informed by my 10 years of iOS experience, conversations with senior engineers at Meta and Snap, and my personal experience from my own grind: 30 technical interviews across big tech and hot startups in December 2025.

Because it’ll be a little awkward to expense this to your company, I’m pricing it at a special reduced price of $19.99 this month only.

If you’re an existing paid subscriber? You get it for free. Thanks for the support!

Contact me if you’re a student, unemployed, or a layoff victim, and I’ll sort you out with a discount.

Cheers for reading Jacob’s Tech Tavern! 🍺