Post by Paras Kamble

I earn 1.8L per month now. That's what one of my followers told me recently. My first reaction wasn't "wow." It was relief. Because 1.8L isn't a flex number. It's not the LinkedIn screenshot with five dollar signs and a "grateful and blessed" caption. It's just... a solid, real, boring in the best way design salary. And that's exactly why I wanted to write about it instead of scrolling past it. He'd been in my DMs for close to 5 months. Not asking for tips, sending me actual transcripts of what he'd said in interviews, asking what went wrong. So I have receipts on what actually changed. It wasn't mindset. It was one specific habit. Old answer, when asked to walk through a project:  "So this was a food delivery app, and users were dropping off at checkout, so I redesigned the flow to reduce steps, and after that drop-off went down by 15%." New answer, same project, four months later:  "Drop-off was the symptom. When I dug in, most of it was happening on one specific step: address confirmation on slow connections in tier-2 cities. I almost redesigned the whole checkout before I saw that. I killed two other 'obvious' fixes because they would've helped power users and hurt this segment more." Same project. Same metric. Completely different interview. The second one survives follow-up questions because there's a real decision buried in it, not a highlight reel. That's the only thing I'd tell anyone prepping right now: stop rehearsing outcomes. Start being able to defend the one moment you almost got it wrong. I ended up putting every pattern I've seen work, for portfolio reviews, case studies, whiteboarding rounds, product thinking questions, and the traps that quietly fail good candidates, into one kit, along with an actual prep plan so you're not guessing what to study each week. 350+ people have already used it to get through rounds like this one. Check the Kit here: https://lnkd.in/dy4Z8e2G