Is it just me or the job market for product designer isn’t good as before? I updated my portfolio and got referrals but don’t even get interviews. Tc:115k
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Dm if you see anything at indeed. Lots of design roles
How is the design culture at Indeed? How mature are the processes and does design have a seat at the table? Asking because my days of convincing Eng that design matters are behind me 😅
Definitely not having to convince engineering. Most PMs are well invested in design (I'm a uxr but work really closely with my designer)
Definitely not good. I’m getting interviews by working my network but 90% of the places I’ve cold applied to have not gotten back.
I got referral to PayPal and got instantly rejected in 1 day. A few months back I was able to get interviews at amazon and meta with just cold apply. Feels pretty bad
I got instantly rejected from Dropbox in hours after a referral. It was weird. I’m getting interviews at Google, Airbnb, and Spotify right now. Meta is completely frozen.
it sucks right now. places that used to have open roles that offered team matching after the interview process now have very specific segmented roles. meaning everything is very competitive everywhere now (it’s always been competitive but wiggle room just got tighter). you can be missing 1 qualification and since the sea of designers is full right now due to the layoffs from other large well known companies, there’s definitely someone else out there interviewing that will have that 1 missing thing.
Yeah this sucks. I wish I started interviewing earlier this year. No one wants me🥲
How’s PD at Twilio these days? The comp isn’t stellar from what I’ve heard but the design org is pretty great, apparently? Got any tips on video or flex?
Yes, now seems like the time to be riding it out with your current job and see what Q1 or Q2 looks like.
I would still keep interviewing to practice, but would be very cautious about changing my job unless my current company is unstable.
thing with me is I really don’t want to go into office. I want to work from home
OP, has jpmc really been enforcing rtto? How?
How many years of experience do y’all have? I think that matters a lot. But I agree. Market feels tighter compared to earlier in the year, but there’s still jobs out there. Three friends just got hired, all doubled+ their tc. So there’s plenty of hope but the days of getting Meta and other FAANG interviews knocking at your door may be done for a bit. We’re hiring and have been interviewing and the level of candidates have not been great. I’ve rejected 5 late stage candidates myself, and 2 others signed other offers. But we don’t pay FAANG money so we aren’t getting FAANG caliber designers.
Wow what company are you at? Rejected so many
We’re an agency. They weren’t great candidates. It was for a lead role, we’ve had a hard time with our pipeline for a while.
Market is tight right now :( I am a recruiter and I still have product design roles but not as many as earlier in the year
i feel like it’s pretty normal that hiring slows down in Q4 across any industry. paired w the economic downturn it’s probably a little worse.
If you follow the news, most companies are cutting / reducing hiring as we’re likely headed to a recession. We’re going to our clients and advising them to watch their headcount and cut costs. I would anticipate the number of open positions to continue to decline until we see a light for the economy.
Hiring freezes and tanking stocks will do that.
Think GitHub will get more design head count next year?
We are in Q 3 of a recession and that men’s less jobs