I've been interview prepping for a new job on the side at my current job and I'm hopeful this time around I can finally break into a big tech company. I've always been bad at interviews and I hope my practice can be better this time around. However, I'm scared I won't be able to get a new job since I see that some of my connections that were recently laid off at big tech companies haven't been able to find a job since. Some anecdotes: a SWE at Twitter I know has been laid off since November hasn't found a new job. A Google SWE has been laid off in January hasn't found a new job. For reference, I have 3 YOE. Seriously how fucked am I? How fucked is the market? People who are extremely good at interviewing and job hopping at big tech, how bad is the market? Has anyone job hopped from big tech to big tech in this job market? How successful were you compared to previous times? Has it been more difficult?
I haven't worked at big tech before, but even non-big tech seems difficult to get into now. I have 8 yoe and havent experienced anything like this since I first started looking after a coding bootcamp 8 years ago
Same and I just got laid off from big tech
Networking will take you places, you can't imagine. Start asking in your curcle for jobs.
Everyone in my circle is looking to jump ships or opentowork đ¤ˇ
Gotta make friends with rOcKStARS
Certain industries are still hiring at normal pace (energy, healthcare, even banks are back with ai hype) but I doubt youâll see big comp packages as observed in recent years and itâll take a while for big tech to work through the backlog. The high employment / high comp offers in big tech / startups for whole groups of employees (tech roles) attracted a ton of people. Demand has fallen away and there is a surplus in these groups. More so if you consider the US comp levels is elevated vs the rest of the world.
It depends I know a person that got laid off twitter in the beginning of February and was at Uber by the end of the month
Itâs still sloooow, but picked up a tad in the last couple of months - especially if you are in AI
those ppl from google and twitter arent trying very hard. They cashed out on the money printer i presume and are living mini retirements faang folks can STILL pretty much go anywhere if theyre ok with a down level in certain situations you on the other hand will face genuine difficulties
The market is anecdotally bad. I've been casually browsing since February. IMO this market is ok if you need any job but being picky is rough especially without the experience and a portfolio that really differentiates you from the thousands of other applicants. If you're open to RTO and relocation, your options become slightly better, but nothing to write home about.
I'm more curious about projections of the market 5-10 years from now
Couldnât get any worse than now honestly, either we hope for a massive boom or ai automated everything
Last year I used to interview every month just for practice. However now I am not getting even 1 Interview call, so it's been difficult in this market especially if we are very picky in our requirements like Remote job + high paying. However I see Startups are hiring so may be one can try that.
If theyâre fukked, weâre all majorly fukked
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