Surviving a Reorg Without Losing Your Mind

How to navigate the chaos, protect your job, and come out stronger.

Hemant Pandey

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Suresh Choudhary

Apr 06, 2025

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Cross-post from The Hustling Engineer

This is a guest post I wrote on Hemant Pandey's The Hustling Engineer. A few weeks ago, Hemant and I chatted about how reorgs can make and break our career in tech. So we thought it would be great to put our discussion into words. Here's the result: -

Suresh Choudhary

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Suresh Choudhary

. Suresh has 15+ years of experience in the tech industry, 11 as a Software Engineer and 4 as an Engineering Manager. His expertise lies in leading platform teams in the DevOps and CI/CD space.

He believes that platforms and tools can have more impact on the engineering culture than words on slides. In his role as an E…

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A guest post by

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Senior Engineering Manager at Salesforce, building platforms and people. With 15+ years of experience, I share real, no-fluff insights in the best weekly newsletter for Software Engineering Managers.