Hi blinders, i recently got laid off from a no-name startup in Austin. Im 6 months out of grad school(Aug 2020) and worked there for 3 months before i was let go. i have no other full time experience. Ive had some interships at Dell in the past. I spent the last 3 months in React Natice and django; also picked up Docker, ElasticSeaech, Redis Queues, and integrations with other apis; have plenty of past projects with C/C++ and internships was in Golang. Ive started leetcoding so i dont get rusty. They said it was an issue with fit and that they were restructuring. Zero feedback about my peformance at anytime in 3 months. CTO only offered praise in public meetings and demo days...but still fired me. He also offered referral to his friends company for contract work and recommendation(okay...). They gave me 1 week of severance(wife and i burned through our saving of 5k breaking lease and moving here because they insisted onsite and moved online 3 weeks after starting 😑) and health insurance till end of the month. Would appreciate any referrals for software dev roles in Austin(100% open to other areas as well). 0 YOE. 0 TC. #layoff #referral
Do people not know how to use LinkedIn?
Dm for refer to vmw
Thank you. Dm’ed
Apply at Indeed, we have a ton of open positions. It’s a great company! Are you a SWE? What did you do for a living before & during grad school?
Thank you for the tip! I’ve placed applications for quite a few roles that fit me at indeed. I went direct undergrad to grad, both in the states. I have 3 months of experience as an SWE and 2 summers as SWE intern.
Dm me
Thank you for the reply. DM’ed!
PayPal is hiring in Austin aggressively. You should there.
Thanks for the tip! I’ve applied to everything I’m qualified for.
Dm for a referral at Uber
DM’ed. Thanks for offering to help!
DM me I can help with a referral
DM’ed. Thanks for the offer to refer.
Dm
DM for VMware referral in Austin
What did you study in grad school ? Also M.S. or PhD
M.Eng Computer Engineering. Initially started in Comp Arch and Embedded Systems(was a TA for the Embedded Systems class in Undergrad). Pivoted to work in IoT medical lab developing mobile apps and ran human participant trials to create datasets. No publications however.
Okay that’s good background. What graduate school ?