>Basically I had around a year at Amazon
Assuming you were in an engineering role there and not stacking crates in the warehouse, no, you're not unhireable.
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#12The market slowed down quite a bit. Hopefully you have savings to weather the storm. My linkedin spam has died down quite a bit. I would get 2-3 good hits every few months and interview.
Just keep sending out your resume. You survived Amazon interview and actually worked there so you should be hirable.
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#13Without seeing your resume, it is difficult to answer your question. For me, all the crypto stuff on a resume would be a flag. Maybe not a red flag, but pink or orange. I know it is a personal opinion, but the entire crypto industry is tainted in my eyes.
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#14No, you're fine. It's the market probably. Keep grinding
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#15Definitely not 'unhireable'.
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#16I'm 41, haven't had a normal full-time job in my adult life (unless you count 5 years of grad school), and I will go seriously looking for work in a couple months!
I have no evidence for the following outlook, but I'm depending on it: if you're educated, if you're skilled, if you're a motivated learner, and if you have a good attitude, then you're not unhireable. Rather, you're in a rather enviable, privileged position relative to society at large.
Maybe you won't find your dream job immediately, but my guess is you'll be fine in the big picture.
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#17Sounds like you're having a typical experience in the current market. I just went through this being an early employee at a startup for the past three years and us suddenly meeting the end of our runway. It took a few months to land a new SWE role. Keep up the hunt. I would stay involved with your startup as long as possible if you're worried about a gap on your resume.
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#18Not unhireable, but you are probably going to have to find an employer where the fit is good both ways. It may frustrate finding something else, but when you do it will be good.
BUT I am going to ask as a rhetorical question, why isn't your startup making money? I can tell you why mine isn't, I made a product only one customer wants. Which isn't really a product. Maybe a pivot or two...
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#19Without seeing your resume, it is difficult to answer your question. For me, all the crypto stuff on a resume would be a flag. Maybe not a red flag, but pink or orange. I know it is a personal opinion, but the entire crypto industry is tainted in my eyes.
So what should he do then? Better to give advice.
He ought to search and replace crypto with fintech startup in his resume.
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#20Without seeing your resume, it is difficult to answer your question. For me, all the crypto stuff on a resume would be a flag. Maybe not a red flag, but pink or orange. I know it is a personal opinion, but the entire crypto industry is tainted in my eyes.
I have crypto on my resume, from a company that only ever took money from professional investors. What I did was a typical devops role, so I don't see why it would be a flag. I worked with typical AWS services and Kubernetes. Wrote some in house software as well. Yes it served a crypto product, but it could have been any sector really.