As a CTO the number of unsolicited inbound emails from recruiters with fawning profiles of potential candidates is not like anything I have seen before. I think it’s a signal that very highly paid engineering leaders are not able to find jobs like they had before easily.
Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hang in there. I’d say your experience is pretty good. Maybe try AB testing your resume structure and wording, improving social media, etc.
Whenever I've seen a situation with low supply/high demand, networks trump credentials
Totally agree, fortunately I have a decent network to draw from. Unfortunately, I have to refresh leetcode to take up friends who have rec's to offer + most of those friends work for orgs that have completely frozen hiring pipelines.
Network could be better though, going to spend the week at a friend's in Austin at SXSW to accelerate potentially growing the network at cringe founder events. Yes, I'm that desperate.
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#13Product designer, 10 years experience. Laid off mid-December. Recruiter screens and hiring manager interviews have picked up somewhat, but it’s still proving very hard to get into late-round interviews. I have only my third portfolio review in nearly three months coming up next week – here’s hoping.
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#14Nope, it's pretty bad. Out of maybe 40 applications I've had 2 interviews, made it to round two for one of them, no offer. LinkedIn positions get 150+ applications within hours. For the first time I got nearly zero response from HN Hiring as well. I think the issue is everything is skewing wildly towards senior roles, even non-senior roles are getting inundated with 200+ applicants that are over qualified. If you're…
Get LinkedIn premium and msg the recruiters for the job. I have a non FAANG profile and am regularly collecting offers doing that. Going through the resume pile is work. The recruiter would rather not have to do the work and get a hire in the job.
Will do, thanks for the tip. I'm somewhat tempted to start grifting Blind and just paying for recs.
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#15I was laid off in November - few false starts here and there but I start my new gig on the 20th. Better yet I have $20k left from severance which is really nice.
I assume non-startup / large company? Congrats on the role.
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#16Got laid off in October, worked on open-source projects, two of those ended up in the front-page, got contacted and signed an offer this month. I felt like shit and spent too much time getting baked, but it's over now.
Urban dictionary was handy for that one.
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#19people i knew got one or two years contractor with 10% more pay increase right away, i was offered more than that for two year contractor at meta twice so far but i prefer staying at where i am. we are all decades experience in embedded system,this field seems to be more aging proof? i am not sure.
Embedded took a huge hit recently. Google and Amazon uninvested significantly in IoT.
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#20Got laid off in October, worked on open-source projects, two of those ended up in the front-page, got contacted and signed an offer this month. I felt like shit and spent too much time getting baked, but it's over now.
Urban dictionary was handy for that one.
I also didn’t know that. For others like us:
> get baked
> Smoking a larger than normal quantity of marijuana, usually resulting in a good few hours of laziness, desire to eat fast food (or junk food) and/or fall asleep.