for those asking: do something. help the person out, provide a favor, build something cool in public. this is how you get jobs and the attention of job seekers. the goal is to stand out, not be like the rest.
nearly all huge career mistakes is that you get an offer and blindly accept it just to get out of the suffering of thinking about your career
and then don't talk to a single other company, so you have zero leverage and no idea what else is out there
