Serena Dinh
Career coach for tech interviews and offer negotiation
| Hourly rate range | $80 to $160 an hour |
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Serena Dinh is a career coach who helps people prepare for interviews, tell a clearer career story, and negotiate job offers. She is a Head of Talent and People who has recruited for Amazon Web Services, Meta and Baidu. She also worked at Levels.fyi, where she learned how pay decisions and offers are built. She has worked with more than 100 clients, with a focus on competitive tech hiring.
What Serena helps with
Serena helps clients get ready for interviews and negotiate offers. She teaches them how companies judge candidates so they stop guessing.
- Preparing for interviews
- Telling a clearer career story
- Negotiating offers, titles and pay
- Positioning experience so strong candidates are not overlooked
- Understanding how recruiters and hiring managers decide
- Moving through competitive tech hiring processes
Who Serena works with
Serena works with candidates going after roles in competitive tech hiring. Her own recruiting covered engineering, product, infrastructure, SRE, AI/ML and leadership roles. She has helped more than 100 clients.
Background and qualifications
Serena is a Head of Talent and People. She has recruited for Amazon Web Services, Meta and Baidu, and for high-growth venture-backed startups including Cortex, a Series C company. She worked directly with founders, executives and hiring teams to hire for engineering, product, infrastructure, SRE, AI/ML and leadership roles. At startups she helped build the talent team from the ground up. At Levels.fyi she gained a view into how pay is decided and how offers are structured.
Serena Dinh pricing
Programs and services
- Custom hourly coaching sessions
Serena Dinh reviews
Serena Dinh has a 5.0 out of 5 rating from 3 reviews on Leland, as of September 2026.
The CoachVouch take
She coaches from the hiring side, with recruiting experience at Amazon Web Services, Meta and Baidu plus pay insight from Levels.fyi.
Best for tech job seekers who want to interview with more clarity and negotiate a stronger offer.
Common questions
How much does Serena Dinh charge?
Coaching with Serena runs $80 to $160 an hour. Message Serena from this page for an exact quote.
What does Serena Dinh help with?
Serena Dinh helps with preparing for interviews, telling a clearer career story, negotiating offers, titles and pay and positioning experience so strong candidates are not overlooked.
Does Serena Dinh have reviews?
Serena Dinh has a 5.0 out of 5 rating from 3 reviews on Leland, as of September 2026.
What kind of roles has Serena Dinh recruited for?
She has hired for engineering, product, infrastructure, SRE, AI/ML and leadership roles. She did this at companies including Amazon Web Services and Meta.
How do I contact Serena Dinh?
Send Serena a message from this page. It's free and takes a minute.
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