I was at FB for 5 years, then joined LinkedIn for 1 year. Boomeranged back to Meta in March and got laid off in April. Previous to FB, I was in non tech company for 4 years. My actual role is also in non tech. I have been looking again, and obviously with all the layoffs and the economy, it’s been hard to find another job in tech. I have some non tech company interviews but feel kind of bad taking them because I still want to stay my career in tech long term. For instance, I’d really love to work at Google one day but feel that I’d have a better chance if I was directly coming from another tech company. How have other laid off people felt about this? Will my resume/candidacy get worse from going back to non tech company? TC: $0 after layoff. Previous TC $320k For what it’s worth, the non tech companies I am looking at are paying about $275k TC. Comp is not too different but I’m more concerned about my resume.
What do you do? If you can share.
+1, id love to know what non tech role pays this much Op
Are you in sales?
Post is too ambiguous. If u r an engineer, conditions chnge greatly. You want to be in big tech because of company “prestige”? You want to be an employee all the time?
Does LinkedIn has a boomerang policy?
Net worth?
What’s your role? TPM? PM? HR?
Very likely true with the way that the market was for years before this recent bloodbath. Non-tech role at a tech company like FB/LI is still a role in tech.
Lol PMs with a couple years experience we’re getting 300K+ last year so def believable
Did you try back at your LinkedIn team? The role may still be open. I don’t think going non tech for a couple years matters. My long experience is in different industries and it’s never been a hindrance because they’re all large known companies. That’s more important as they typically want you to be able to deal with large matrixed organizations in non tech roles.
Most likely this time period will be remembered for the huge shake out and people will understand. Plus you pretty much need a referral to get noticed either way so it shouldn't matter much in the end.
In current market situation I don't think you have much choice. I would say take it whatever you get and don't wait for dream job.. If you are wealthy rich and have lot of money to pay your bill than you have luxury to wait for dream job else market is brutal
Thank you