As someone who is looking for new roles at this time, I started to think about how I am now competing against thousands of Ex-Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc employees for a limited set of roles. Where do you think these candidates stack compared to the rest of the market? From what I’m seeing, big corporate roles are more limited these days and more of the openings are from pre-ipo companies. These companies tend to move much faster than what someone from Google or Microsoft is used to. While they have the big brand name, will the work experience there make them stronger or arguably weaker candidates than someone from a smaller company who had to wear more hats and more variety in their responsibilities?
Depends on the role being hired for. The startup I work at now just fired the VP of product who just came from big tech
Yea but they also just hired the cop of product from big tech….
Weaker. Most of them are low performers
If anything, they are more likely to be entitled for a higher TC..
I’m very curious as well if laid of googlers will be at an advantage because brand name or disadvantage because companies will assume they’re low performers who got laid off.
People laid off at Google weren't low performers...
Yeah, I know. I'm just curious if companies will have a bias toward googlers due to recent layoffs.
They would have an advantage, especially those that have kept up their LC habits but for those that haven’t your will for the grind will shine through
Ideally it should be a level playing field but interviewers inherent bias on school name, company name will continue to exist
If it helps I got laid off In one of these layoffs (and I was actually promoted right before so not a Low performer, just in an expendable r and d unit) and I was so shaken and distraught I couldn’t focus on interviews for a month
Layoffs do this to everyone, been there.. this too shall pass.. hang in there and don’t let it get you down.
🙏🙏🙏
We are 💩 tier. Not sure about G though.
That’s right, you don’t have to worry about us. We’re lowering the bar
My honest opinion is that having the big companies on the resume will give you a leg up because 1) recruiters are the ones screening the resume. Big tech = more likely to pass the interview process, on average. 2) Many big tech employees may work on things where the quantifiable aspects are “impressive” (ex. Daily active users, TPS, performance metrics, etc). Even if they aren’t the direct reason for this, slapping the big numbers on the resume will catch eyes I personally think highly of the eng culture at Airtable, so you’ll be fine imo haha
Totally agree
You understand everyone has to pas an interview right?that's all that matters, not getting a recruiter attention
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You’ve got nothing to worry about. Just stick to your plan!
My plan needs to account for recruiters who will see EX GOOGLE ENGINEER! And give them preference
Let them. Their loss. If you sit and worry, you lose.