Laid Off, Now What?
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Laid Off, Now What?
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#2What is this mail to link at bottom? my-user-name-here@gmail pls change it
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#3I'm too from India! Can you share your experience on how you got your first job? From college to first job
Re: Laid Off, Now What?
#4What is this mail to link at bottom? my-user-name-here@gmail pls change it
That's a traditional 1990s trick to stop bots scraping your e-mail address to send you spam.
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#5What is this mail to link at bottom? my-user-name-here@gmail pls change it
Why do you want them to change how they write their email address? Are you a bit and unable to solve their captcha? Otherwise what’s the problem?
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#6Hey bbhat - glad to see you landed on your feet. :)
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#7The current state of job interviews is terrible. Just the fact that studying for a few weeks affects their outcome should raise eyebrows everywhere.
And don't get me started on lack of job-related questions, false negatives and having to guess what interviewers want to hear
Re: Laid Off, Now What?
#8The current state of job interviews is terrible. Just the fact that studying for a few weeks affects their outcome should raise eyebrows everywhere. And don't get me started on lack of job-related questions, false negatives and having to guess what interviewers want to hear
[Edit: Parent commenter has now reworded their comment to remove confusion]
Huh? OP wasn't a rando who just 'studied' for a few weeks and passed. He has been working in Tech for 7+ years [1].
If anything the moral of this story is it doesn't matter that you have a 7 year experience, you still have to do fucking Leetcode for 2 months if you want to get a new job.
Re: Laid Off, Now What?
#9The current state of job interviews is terrible. Just the fact that studying for a few weeks affects their outcome should raise eyebrows everywhere. And don't get me started on lack of job-related questions, false negatives and having to guess what interviewers want to hear
[Edit: Parent commenter has now reworded their comment to remove confusion] Huh? OP wasn't a rando who just 'studied' for a few weeks and passed. He has been working in Tech for 7+ years [1]. If anything the moral of this story is it doesn't matter that you have a 7 year experience, you still have to do fucking Leetcode for 2 months if you want to get a new job. [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/bharathpbhat/
> ... it doesn't matter that you have a 7 year experience, you still have to do fucking Leetcode for 2 months if you want to get a new job
Exactly my point -- two weeks of leetcode do not significantly affect the candidate's ability to perform the job, but it has immense influence on how well s/he'll do in the interview
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#10H1B rules are quite ridiculous (or more accurately, cruel). Do people here know that even this 60-day grace window was only put into place relatively recently by the Obama administration?
Before that, you technically had to leave the country the day you were laid off. Never mind that you might have a house a family and might have been living here for more than a decade. You would officially be staying illegally if you didn't leave right away and it would jeopardize your chances of getting a visa in the future.
It's only through an historic odd mix of good pay and relatively laxer immigration rules that the US managed to attract a large pool of talent in the 80s, 90s and 00s. Students from my college who are about 5-10 years junior to me no longer consider it a viable place to plan a long-term career in due to the extreme precariousness of visa holders' life situations in the US.
Politically speaking we have little to no power in numbers so neither politically party really cares. Typically it's the Democrats who are pro-immigration, but in reality they don't care much about H1B style immigration and are in fact likely against it due to American tech unions hating H1Bs, while we have unlikely allies in some Republicans because our presence benefits big companies. Common sense solutions standard across the world (such as skill-based / point-based systems) are looked down upon, while we keep getting kicked around on the political playground.