I was laid off 4 months ago at the worst time. I have a 3 year old, and it has been an extremely trying time for our family. I have been studying all day, everyday since the day I was laid off, but I’m running out of money. I’m currently pre offer for two great companies, but would feel more stable getting some more loops started. I applied to a few front-end openings yesterday: - Lyft - Airbnb - Quora - Pinterest - Slack - Apple - Walmart - Splunk - Uber - Stripe - Square If anyone could help get my application in front of HR, my family and I would be greatly appreciative! YOE: 5 (React, Node, Express, GraphQL, AWS, Python)
No severance! Just savings, and some contracting money.
I can refer you at fb. Lmk
Thanks! Didn’t make it all the way through last month, but they’ll contact me in 10 months.
Is it really that hard to find a new job if you are in IT?
As an example, at Facebook, it takes an average of 3 tries to get the job.
3 on site interviews? How about smaller companies?
Why not try contracting jobs.
I’ve been contracting, but as a parent and sole provider, I need to make enough to cover bills and also pay for health care. I also don’t want to get a bs job and leave it after I get a better offer. I’ve done that, it backfires, and It doesn’t look great.
If you find any jobs at Oracle matching your skills am happy to refer
Network like crazy. Meet people for coffee and/or drinks. How does your LinkedIn profile look?
It looks pretty good! I constantly refactor my resume as well. The current version has gotten FANG attention.
Did you file for unemployment? It's several hundred a week
Go after some smaller companies; all the companies you listed have varying degrees of rigorous hiring processes where as there are plenty of start ups and smaller companies that will pay more than unemployment that can get you an offer in ~2 weeks and have low hiring bars... When you’re desperate is not the time to go shooting for the moon. If it works out great, but you seem to be putting all your eggs in one basket
As the person above mentioned, if you're desperate, you should be casting a wider net than those companies! You mentioned you have a good LinkedIn profile, make sure you have set yourself to be "actively looking for new positions". When I did that my inbox was flooded. Also try out services like Hired and Ziprecruiter, although I have no experience with them myself.
Sorry to hear this. Don’t you get a severance package and unemployment benefits or did you maxed those out too?