I was part of the layoff in Feb as an EM. I took a month break. From March, I started preparing and had several interviews with a few companies for practice. However, after April, it seems it is getting hard to even get interviews. Got rejected during the recruiter screening, much fewer contact from LinkedIn, open roles were closed during the discussion, even a couple of referrals were also rejected. Is the market becoming worse for EM? Should I lower my expectation to prepare for the long er "break". I was hoping to start a new job in May or Jun. Is there anything I could do? Would much appreciate your advice. TC: 0 YOE: 12 #tech #manager #interview #layoff #EM
Job market has been shit for white collar workers for 2+ years. Nothing new here
Limited roles and a lot of strong candidates, roles close really quickly. Hopefully hiring pics up, it’s still better than it was in Jan.
A recruiter from a well known tier 2 tech company reached out to me for an EM role. She said the position was split evenly between doing hands on coding and people management. This is the reality unfortunately. Pure people management roles are slowly going away
It’s only in this market. It’s unsustainable to do that once you have more than 10 reports with all the BS FAANG process around perf management, weekly reporting meetings with leadership, cross functional planning, etc. I think it’s skewing TLMs (hands on with few reports) and M2s (hands off and managing managers) rather than M1s in this market.
I am totally fine doing hands on coding if I have bandwidth. but the reality is that there aren't even many interview opportunities, especially since Q2.
Sorry to hear that. I have tried autoapplypro. It helped me get some calls.
Limited roles, focused skillsets, plethora of candidates on the market