ive been unemployed now for 3 months. ive passed the google hc 1 month ago and currently waiting to team match, but the two locations im open to (nyc and austin) are apparently highly competitive and might take a long time to get anything. how long should/can i keep this up waiting? its such an awful experience just hoping the stars will align with google. i have turned down really great offers just waiting for google to come thru. from a financial perspective, i have a significant amount of savings so i could actually wait for all of 2020 without going homeless, but i feel like that would hurt my career should it take that long to find a job. how long can a swe be unemployed before it really starts to hurt your career? im also gearing up to start interviewing again. just in case google just doesnt pan out. tc 0 yoe 3
Wtf Hc is slow
You’re telling me
Was unemployed a year and a half. Big name orgs (FB, MSFT, VMWare, etc..) didn’t start hitting me up until after that. You’ll be fine.
Did they contact you on LinkedIn or did they follow up on a previous application?
They responded to new applications. Roughly a month or so from time of application to hearing from a recruiter
You need to interview in other places and even consider contracting while you wait for google. You may have savings for 2020 but you are burning your reserves for no reason and getting stressed out. Also don’t wait forever, there is a point where you need to decide if keep waiting is doing any good
I’ve been in transition for over a year. Try not to let it go past 6 months. Update your resume to only include years for the dates (remove the months). You can hide gaps better that way.
You are lazy and lax , find another job , or did you not find anything and you are pinning your hopes on google
Got two other offers that I rejected thinking that google would work out. Still interviewing. Not sure why you would call me lazy
Don't pin your hopes on Google. A break will have little to no impact on your long term career. However, pinning your hopes on one single highly selective company doesn't make sense. There's a ton of other companies that are at par with/better than Google. Google just has a bigger brand name with the lay person (due to being a popular consumer product)
FWIW, I was hired at FB after a gap of like 15 months. Though I feel in retrospect, my equity package was definitely lowball because I had no competing offer but my base and bonus was fair as an IC5
I don't think an employment gap means anything beyond the fact that you aren't getting paid. I have a couple gaps on my resume and I've never really been asked about it
What level did you get? I'm assuming L3/L4. Google decision stays on file for a year; in some cases upto two years. So you're good.
I was told L4. What do you mean exactly by “you’re good”?
HC result are valid for a year. (Experienced hire). That is what I head too. So you can technically be in teammatch for a year before they gave up on you 🤷♂️