After sitting on the idea of sharing this post for almost 4 months, I just thought What the hell!! let me just do it!!. So long story short, I returned back from my maternity in Aug 2019 to a team whose management and leadership complety changed!! my reporting team was taken away from me and I was left all alone. I was very vocal about this change with my new reporting manager during goal discussions and even at one point with HR. I reached out to anyone and everyone to mentor/ guide me on how to get through this. I was left alone and sidelined from the project and set to failure, without any guidance/ support. All this while juggling with my personal side with one toddler and one new born, and kinda into PPD n other health issues. I was very open about this with my reporting mgr and shared my career goal and asked how he can help me in this journey in this difficult phase, which i felt he cared less. After all this efforts, on the D-day I was let go!! ( which i actually sensed it) Before my delivery I have been top performer and delivered many projects successfully. I loved the co. and my work but new leadership didnt believe in me anymore. I felt women empowerement and all just a Big bullshit and when it actually comes to action no one actually cares about it. Though I took it positively and started looking for new opportunities. Then Covid happened ☹️ from then till now struggling to get a job!! I was about to get 2 offers in June after I was told that i cleared all rounds, it didnt happen either. In last min they said they couldnt give an offer and didnt give any reason either. Now with so many layoffs happening, cracking an interview is getting very challenging. esp with lil one’s always around me its making it more hard to prepare for interviews. Loosing confidence too. As sometimes I was told I’m over qualified and other times they say directly that , once the market is back you will leave us , so we dont want to pursue🙄. I need to get back to action AEAP so that we can still keep paying our bills! Not sure why I’m sharing this here, but felt like some of you can understand me and may be I just needed to vent it out! 😐 Btw I’m ,sorry, I was an Engineering Manager Thank you for reading this #layoffs #womenintech #vmware
I am very sorry to hear about the hard times you are going through. Kindly dm me with your resume. I will try and see if there are any managerial positions open at rally to refer you.
Ty so much. I will reachout to you
Hang in there..cos of Covid so many bright minds r looking 4 jobs so it is tough..but always remember yu r one of them..
Thank you for the kind words🙏
If you find any roles at F5, NGINX or Shape Security, I'd be happy to refer you.
Ty so much 🙏
Sorry for what you are going through. DM your resume and I can refer you.
Ty so much sure will reachout to u
If you find anything in confluent or amd let me know. I can pass resume to manager .
Ty. Sure will reach out to you
I can refer you as well if you are interested
Ty will reach out to you
we have few openings in nvidia at santa clara, either you can dm me, or search for it on our career page and apply
Ty. I did apply here yet hear bk. Sure will reach out to u
First of all, congratulations on your second child. I hope I can have children of my own some day. ☺️ Can you confirm it was VMware? I just got a call from them today and if so I will tell them to go fuck themselves. Welcome to being “mommy tracked.” It’s disgusting that in this day and age, we still have to deal with this. You may want to look into a lawsuit- maybe someone would take you on pro bono. At the very least your story needs to get out to the press. There’s a few reporters on here, maybe this will flag them. If you want a chill place to coast, let me know if you see any postings at IBM and I’d be happy to give you a referral. Stay strong.
There are these return-ship opportunities for women who have been on a maternity leave. Have you checked into those?
I was let go after returning from maternity and now applying for returnship program, not sure actually if they accept me!! As i was let go n
Sorry about your troubles. I think what they did (management and hr ) was shitty. Just goes to show HR isn’t for employees rather to save employers any trouble. Can I suggest something out of the box? And it’s only my personal opinion, your situation could be different. Why not take a break and get some bonding time in with the new born? Seems to me you r under a lot of pressure in personal life and finding a job isn’t easy and that’s causing u even more stress. Seems like a Vicious cycle. Possible to think of it as a break and just take time off and focus on family and come back refreshed and ready to fire? Even after u get a new job, it will be high pressure situation as u have to ramp up. Alternatively , if you can afford hire someone to help with kids while u prepare for interviews. Need to set strict time boundaries of no distraction when u prepare. Wish u all the best. Being parents of new born is hard as is even without the pressure of finding a new job.
Is it shitty though? I can understand pregnant interviewee discrimination because the business doesn't stop running. That team needed a manager for presumably months. They found someone to take on the role. Making that person then leave the role after proving themselves would also be unfair
@microsoft It's easy to understand such things when they don't apply to you personally.