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Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?
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Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?
#52Weirdly, a senior dev from my company was recruited by another company and will be changing jobs in a couple weeks. And to be clear, he is not a unicorn type. He's a good senior developer in a common language. It's hard for me to understand recruiters "fishing in the neighbor's pond" while there are plenty of unemployed, qualified senior devs out there right now.
I've heard from a few sources that there's a disgusting stigma of "if you were laid off, there must be a reason."
Yeah, I worried about this, which is why I didn't tell anyone I was interviewing with that I'd been laid-off.
Laid off in August, new job by end of September. That being said, it was much tougher than other times, and I have 10+ years experience in data science (which most candidates in this field won't have). I also interview well, which helped a lot.
Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?
#53New York here. Been just over 2 weeks since getting laid off. I'm getting calls from recruiters and have interviews lined up, but it's been tough.
Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?
#54US, looking for remote. 15+ years experience been looking since early January, and I still don't feel like I have traction. Worst job market for engineers I've seen in a long time. I have hope it'll improve in March when budgets are finalized, but at the same time I'm preparing for it to be a long one. First unemployment in my career, up until now I had employers coming to me.
I suspect the remote aspect is the biggest thing slowing you down. I go in once a month, which is practically a remote job, but those who moved during the pandemic and wouldn't fly in and take a hotel on their expense once a month had to leave There are 1000 different flavors of mixed home-office working right now, but not that much fully remote
True. I work remotely in a different state from my company's HQ, but I travel to the office for about a week once a quarter. I actually feel safer with this arrangement than if my HQ were local, because everyone around me is slowly getting forced back into the office. First on an as-needed basis, then one mandatory day per week, then three days a week. Most big companies will be back to five mandatory days a week soon enough, it seems.
Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?
#55I was a senior dev at a big tech and got laid off in November. I have applied to hundreds of places. Not a lot of responses. I have been doing interview preps the whole time. It has been very demoralizing and I am thinking of switching careers to something else. I have been considering skilled trades. I like carpentry in particular.
Keep your head up; as you can imagine places that are actively recruiting are being inundated with resumes, many of which have Amazon, MSFT, Google, etc on them.
Has your network been helpful?
Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?
#56US, looking for remote. 15+ years experience been looking since early January, and I still don't feel like I have traction. Worst job market for engineers I've seen in a long time. I have hope it'll improve in March when budgets are finalized, but at the same time I'm preparing for it to be a long one. First unemployment in my career, up until now I had employers coming to me.
I suspect the remote aspect is the biggest thing slowing you down. I go in once a month, which is practically a remote job, but those who moved during the pandemic and wouldn't fly in and take a hotel on their expense once a month had to leave There are 1000 different flavors of mixed home-office working right now, but not that much fully remote
I'm not so sure, at least I know plenty of people in tech hubs that are in a similar position. Certainly anything that reduces the number of jobs you can accept will limit your opportunities, but I'm not sure being open to in-office would immediately solve the problem.
In the end it doesn't matter. Due to family concerns relocation is not an option, and anything local would be a huge pay cut. I'll go that route if I reach the point where I need to, but I'm holding off for now.
Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?
#57Not laid off but I've just ended a year long sabbatical. Looking for work now is a terrible experience. A lot of ghosting, recruiters absolutely useless, agencies not looking for new talent. I have done two dozen interviews, twice as many resumes sent to interested recruiters, and only one offer, which I was not very excited about and declined.
I'm focusing on my SaaS project, and trying to market myself outside the box instead of the old resume as my 16 years long career doesn't seem to impress anyone. Sorry, I will not elaborate further as you're all my competition here.
Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?
#58Not so far. There are lots of positions open, but not sure how many of those are actually being hired for.
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#59Laid off in December. Applies to ~10 companies, and about 10 other companies reached out. 9 rejections, 2 in advanced stages, and 9 haven't heard back from them.
I got my first fulltime job ever in 2019, got laid off in 2021, and had no issue getting interviews and finally landing another job. In 2021 the process was surprisingly easy, fast and without much input from my end. I never really did leetcode exercises, so it was quite a shock to find so many companies do them.
Re: Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?
#60Weirdly, a senior dev from my company was recruited by another company and will be changing jobs in a couple weeks. And to be clear, he is not a unicorn type. He's a good senior developer in a common language. It's hard for me to understand recruiters "fishing in the neighbor's pond" while there are plenty of unemployed, qualified senior devs out there right now.
I've heard from a few sources that there's a disgusting stigma of "if you were laid off, there must be a reason."
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