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Cannot do. On visa.
Ah, that sucks. Visa slavery sounds terrible.
Ah, indentured servitude. Cannot leave country, cannot take vacations, cannot take a year off to travel, cannot be entrepreneurial, cannot do anything on the side / work on a startup idea, etc. It's a beautiful system - brings a tear to my eye.
Yes. To travel to South America.
Nice! What were your favorite places?
How many months off?
Yes took 6 months break after Amazon destroyed me then joined microsoft later
Yeah understandable. Was it hard to get back in the game after that? How are you finding msft?
left after two years for more money. Msft was fine, azure is no go btw whoever wants wlb.
Quit a few weeks ago to focus on studying for interviews and doing them. Haven't finished all the interviews yet, but it's really easy to line up interviews, and the time off has given me plenty of time to prepare. I think it's going well.
Nice, good luck on your interviews!
Nice, what’s your yoe? And could you share your experience on how do you get interview calls after putting an end date / gap in employment? And how you position your story to the hiring managers on why you quit Amazon? I’m in the same boat so appreciate any insights here 🙏
I did! while I was at Amazon as I was working as an Automation Specialist & wanted to pursue career in Software Development. Took 30 days gap, lied about the release date as the recruiter only asked 3 months payslip. It's not visible on the resume as well!
Why did you have to lie? Does having a few months gap make you unemployable in some way?
no people take breaks all the time
Yup. I was working a research job with an abusive PI that loved to call me names like a schoolyard bully every day at work and cared about what times of the day I was warming my seat. I quit after aggressively saving 80% of my pay eating instant ramen and cried for a few months as I quit cancer research to join FAANG. I never got asked about gap, just the standard question about why I'm looking to join. I'm much happier now even if my work is less intellectually fulfilling and I'm not actively saving lives. I do wonder sometimes how life would be different if I stayed in cancer research and helped humanity, but I guess I'll have to dry those tears with some dollar bills
I did it once took 4 months gap and didn’t get asked why I have gap during any of my interviews.
I yoloed...quit my job and got my physical, mental, and spiritual health in check over 6 months. Then hit the market back up. Had no issues with my gap other then detailing how I'd kept skills fresh during the break.
Not sure if internship counts as a job. But I quit my full time job to take an engineer internship at my current company and now I am in the leadership team.
I’m wanting to do this actually can I dm please? I am wanting to go through this route
I’m considering it. I’m a U.S. citizen and if I had, say, three offers lined up better than my current position - what’s the chance that all of them get revoked? For context, I have one verbal offer though. So maybe it’s not as risky. But I more so meant quitting before I sign a written offer.
If you already have verbal offer, It wouldn't take too much longer for a written offer, right? And you could ask for a later start date so there's a break.
You’re right, I just want to make sure I get some break because I’m leaving a lot of PTO on the table :( also want to negotiate too and I spent two weeks worth of PTO interviewing / studying so I wanted to recoup that in the form of a vacation. But I also don’t want to quit without a 2 week notice