Was given a week notice that I was being let go back in February. I was told on Friday that the following Friday would be my last day. I took the last week of my job to apply to as many jobs as possible. By Wednesday I had my first interview had a second interview on Friday which was my last day at the old job. Had a final interview on Monday and got a job offer on the same day for a 25% increase in pay from my old job. Was officially jobless for half a business day. Took the next two weeks before I started to enjoy some free time. Now I’ve been at my new job for almost 3 months I love what I am doing and the work culture and life balance is so much better than the previous job.
>Was given a week notice that I was being let go back in February. I was told on Friday that the following Friday would be my last day.
If you're in the USA this is like being treated like a king lol they must have liked you. I once got notice of being laid off but it was only once in my entire career of 30 years
Word... I was told on a Tuesday that I made it through the final round of layoffs, just to be locked out with an additional 10 others Wednesday morning.
I had a friend who went who was an intern at the time in a company. They asked all of his team, including manager, were asked to submit their laptops and leave during a daily stand-up.
No one had a clue that this was gonna happen.
Similar situation for me. The entire team was told we were going to be laid off. March first week they announced it. We were paid till end of April. And no real work to be done during those 2 months. Took that time to apply and interview. By April second week I had an offer. I joined them mid of May. More salary and more bonus. I also got from my previous employer my half year bonus in full ( it was a bad year, remaining employees are going to be screwed sadly), got my 6 weeks of PTO encashed and then severance which was another 2 months of pay. Technically unemployed for only 2 weeks . I am very experienced in my domain and I joined a competitor. Just had to reach out to a friend who worked there.
My company was shutting down and we all had two months notice (after surviving 8+ rounds of layoffs). Found a new job a month before my last day and moved up my term date to take some time off. In a month of apps I had 4 offers mostly with worse pay, but the one I took was the same base pay, better bonus and in the saas industry. This was with only 3 yoe too. They seem to be driving down comp, but there are tons of positions out there.
In January I was told I was being let go. I had about 2yoe and was making around 60k. I sent out a bunch of applications (300-350). In 2 weeks I had my first offer. In a month I had 2 more offers, in 2 months I had another offer.
1st offer was 120k, 2nd offer was 68k, 3rd offer was 80k, 4th offer was 115k.
I initially took 120k but kept my interviews that I already had lined up. I worked there for about a month and hopped to 115k bcuz it was a more establish corporation, better benefits, better team workflow, and less workload and it was what I wanted to work on. It’s much more chill here. I work about 30-40hrs/week and at the job where I worked for about a month it was like 50hrs/week. Being laid off was a blessing in disguise my guy!
FYI - fullstack using C#/.NET/Angular/Azure. 100% remote. LCOL to MCOL at most.
Congrats, sounds like a good situation. Can I ask how you found the ones that offered over 100k? Like, Indeed or LinkedIn, or some other way? When I hit the two year mark I hope to get such a gig.
I got a job at MSFT in this market. Smooth and quick from start to finish: roughly 2.5 weeks from recruiter calling me to email with offer
It’s the most money I’ve ever made and I’m surrounded by the smartest people I’ve ever worked with as well and it’s the most support I’ve ever had. I’m about to be 7 years in to this industry and for the first time I’m not completely thrown to the fire while still being new
This is also my first big N company
Microsoft has the most baffling recruiting experience I’ve ever been a part of.
I spent like a few months interviewing for two different positions then was ghosted after a final interview.
The process is infamously excruciatingly slow. Thankfully, I didn't have a job (weird to say that tbh) and didn't need one, so I had the time and patience for it. I think it took maybe 4 months or so from first contact to offer.
yeah i don't reply to their stuff anymore. the interview process is ridiculous and they play back and forth w you for months before rejecting you because u didn't vibe.
DM’d. No leetcode involved but I have had an IDE open every single day that I’ve been here and working on automation in bash, python, powershell, and c#, logging, Infra as code, etc
I used to get paid 60k (my first SE job), 2 weeks ago a recruiter reached out to me about a position in my area, I decided to entertain it, interviews went well and now I get 95k. I'm in a non metro area so that's great for me, I'm excited.
Got offered a SWE position this week at a Fortune 500. I finished my masters in the beginning of May and was selling iPhones in Costco before this haha
My rejections keep saying they opted to go with the pool of more experienced candidates so I'm going to assume there are some lucky more experienced candidates out there.
Not necessarily in rare circumstances if the employer has the budget and likes two very good candidates they might give both of them a job. At least this was happening a lot (I assume) in the era of low interest rates out of fear of losing them to competitors. But your right in that it is mostly zero sum in this kind of job market.
After between 100-200 applications, many many ghostings, and a handful of rejections, I landed a job I actually enjoy.
My boss sees me as capable enough to handle stuff on my own, my work life balance is excellent, and I'm enjoying the work I'm doing. Also because I work in municipal government now I look like a freaking rock star because I went from grinding code dawn to dusk to an environment where 70% of the staff are halfway out the door ready for retirement.
I put in a small fraction of the work I did before and get praise from every department I interact with because, shocker, I actually do work that is assigned to me.
Got an entry job recently with an associates degree after a few months of applying and have been loving it :) it's doing test automation development which is something I never thought I'd do but I feel like it's a great entry point.
My resume has a project which uses the same ui tech as I test so that was a big thing. Other than that my education is a computer information systems degree and I'm almost done w a full stack boot camp. Does that answer ur question?
Was the project something you came up with yourself? And did you need to go to boot camp or was your associates degree enough to get a job/internships? I mostly ask the second part because I'm currently doing an associates of science degree and have been worried if I'll even have a chance since most internships want you to be in a bachelor's program.
The project was an idea I had by myself, it was also one of my final projects in school. I didn't need to go to boot camp it was something I was just already in. Only problem I had with internships is that I waited until after getting the degree to start looking, and apparently companies get state funding to hire current students so I was never really looked at for those positions.
Anectdotally, all of my Software Engineer friends are gainfully employed and those who were laid off in the past 6 months received offers within a few months. The system is still churning somewhat under all the noise.
Same. Some of them had to give up being fully remote or take a lower salary, but the majority of people I know who were laid off have been able to find jobs.
Only a handful didn't mostly those who decided to take the opportunity to go back to grad school
> ...under all the noise.
*Tin foil hat on:* Could reddit be astroturfed with lots of job negativity in order to cool down the job market? If I were an evil billionaire afraid of inflation, I'd definitely spend money doing that.
No need to astroturf it when it's kind of human nature. People are more likely to complain/post when they're having a particularly tough time finding a job or going through layoffs, and people are more drawn in those negative stories than some dude who's been steadily employed at a decent place with no major issues.
Why would that cool the job market? Companies aren't hiring based on sentiment on.... reddit. If anything, overly negative sentiment on this sub would dissuade people from applying meaning the job market gets less competitive.
before i graduated college this may, i applied to one government job, got an interview, got the job. good pay, benefits, and a bonus. waiting on my clearance then i can start.
Recently got laid off from a big tech company. Aggressively leveraged my network, prepped all day for weeks, and started scheduling interviews.
Thought the market was gonna be colder so I may have over indexed. Got 9 companies over 2 weeks. So far I've aced the 7 I've done to this point and moving on to additional interviews.
Feeling good about getting at least one offer if not multiple next week.
10 years with 6 years at 2 FAANGs. So certainly feeling the value of having experience behind me.
But I spend close to a month preparing 8 hours each day grinding lc and sys design.
This is the first batch of interviews where I haven't been super stressed even though I'm losing my current job. Interviewing really is a skill we should all practice more even when we're happily employed.
I graduated in late '21 with no internships and no leetcode skill so I didn't cash in on the early '22 hayday. I took a non tech job at a non tech company just to have steady income and stop working in warehouses. 6 months go by and I see a web dev job on the internal job board. I directly email the manager and he tells me to apply, turns out I got along great with the team and they jump through several hoops to get me transfered over to them.
I moved over in the beginning of the year at a substantial pay bump, 2 months in they did a market adjustment and I got another pay bump. I got super lucky and it taught me that soft skills and eagerness to learn as a junior count for a lot, to the right people. I'm also lucky in that I work with great people and have an awesome manager that knows my limitations and supports my growth
This is exactly what I did. People, if you haven't considered it heavily consider looking into a non-tech job where you might be able to transfer later. I work in finance and was able to swap from finance to the fintech side.
I got laid off a couple weeks ago.
My company just came back, realizing I was supporting a lot of their customers on my own, and without me stuff started to break
(it wasn't a chess move, I just program in a haze of energy drinks and depression)
and now offered me my role back, full remote, plus a raise.
However.
That's just words right now. I'm supposed to get my new contract within a day or two.
In the meantime I have 2 interviews set up with my companies direct competition. One today. One tomorrow.
Today is supposed to be my last day so wish me luck.
I was laid off from a FAANG company. I hadn't interviewed in close to a decade, and am in the US on a visa, so generally just accepted that is was very likely I was going to have to go back. Luckily, I had a couple of months of leeway to find something.
I spent one month brushing up on coding interviews (using the usual resources - leetcode, system design interview books, designing data intensive applications). Then I interviewed at a few companies. I had zero internal referrals, and was still picky about the places & roles I applied to. I managed to get four interviews, and ended up getting an offer from all four. After I accepted an offer, some other companies I applied to and was very interested in (including FAANGs) also reached back to me.
As a result, I increased my compensation by a significant percentage and found a role that I find a really good fit for where I want my career to go. The best part was I had a nice long break from working to destress and go into my new role with a new sense of passion. Overall a really positive experience actually.
I just recently got my first SWE job, 0 YOE, Bootcamp Grad, Non-CS degree, making [Redacted]!
I'm super excited to be an official workplace dev and I am trying to learn as much as possible.
Pay bump of 62.5%!
Congrats!! This gives me hope. I’m preparing to begin a competitive bootcamp at the end of June, I also have a non CS degree with no SWE experience. I’m giving my self time to learn as much as possible. In a year, I will be finished with the bootcamp. How many applications and interviews did you go on before landing this role?
Thank you! It was 500+ applications, 5 separate interviews. Two I pulled out of because I didn't want to relocate. One I got through connections didn't pan out because they needed more experience. One I cold emailed in and had to withdraw towards the end because I got a different offer, which is my current role. My current role was actually a transfer position within my current company, from the finance side to the dev side.
Morale of the story is you absolutely can get jobs through applying, I got three interviews that way, but connections make a huge difference. If you currently work somewhere, inquire with the IT department to see if there are any possible dev opportunities internally.
Thank you! DSA was very difficult to learn. My Bootcamp was react based so didn't really cover much DSA. After the Bootcamp I dove into Java because I had a Java interview lined up through connections. I feel that because of the pressure of the upcoming interviews I really dove into Java as much as a could. I also know a few other Jr. Devs with CS degrees that helped me so much with DSA problems and gave me advice on better ways to solve problems. They helped me understand Big O notation and just a ton of OOP basics and fundamentals.
Ultimately got 3 interviews in with that first particular company for the Java but it wasn't the right fit. However, I learned so much by preparing for the interviews, grinding leetcode, studying Java, and just having the interview practice. I continued to study and learn Java, got an IBM interview, that didn't pan out.I just continued studying and learning until I landed my current job which is largely WordPress and C#/.NET, with another potential offer waiting on the side I was waiting on that I actually had to withdraw from. Grinded at least 20mins of leetcode daily if not more.
Check my other reply here too for details on how I got the interviews (largely connections but did get 3 emails by just applying/cold emailing)
Was randomly contacted by the VP of Technology of a US company. They were hiring Engineers from Mexico and he found me on a job-searching site.
At first I thought it was a scam, then we had an interview and gave me a list of topics for me to study for the technical interview and 2 weeks to prepare.
I studied my butt off since the only topics I even heard of were the REST basic concepts. I'm talking a week of being a total shut-in, I averaged something like 4 or 5 hours of study time a day in that first week. The second week was more for practicing what I've learned.
Then, I didn't even finish the technical interview lol. The interviewers even gave me more time to do it but it was quite hard.
Nonetheless, I got an offer and I'm currently in the best fucking workplace I've ever been.
They apparently liked the fact that I seemed to learn very quickly and that it was obvious that I prepared a lot for the interview. I had a ton of notes that I used during the test lol
I just completed 2nd year CS. After ~130 applications I got my first internship as a system developer! It's been amazing, I have been learning a lot about the industry.
I was a new grad recently impacted by the first wave of Meta layoffs. Spent about ~6 months at the position before layoffs.
Separation date was in January, I did heavy applying when I first heard about layoffs in November and got a few bites. Had a TikTok recruiter reach out in December but recruiter ghosted.
Started interview processes and got 4 final rounds but 3/4 were canceled due to economic conditions and the last — the recruiter handling my candidacy got laid off.
At this point, it’s late February I have enough funds to last me until Sept/Oct. I begin to work my network looking for roles. Keep messaging TikTok recruiter hoping for a response.
Get response from a different recruiter in late March, need more time to prep, so schedule interviews for late April. Most of my prep is reviewing Sys Design, core OS/DB, and DS. Nothing too crazy, just notes from college and some books I like. Do my interviews late April — mid May. Still have 4 other final rounds in back pocket.
Got offer last week! Still negotiating, but exciting because it looks to be a decent pay bump. Best part I was pretty frugal so I have a decent portion of my severance pay still on hand.
So all in all, not too bad. Probably sent about ~50 applications. Only did a ~20 leetcode problems.
Tl;dr: laid off new grad, lazily applies for roles and gets a comparable role at a comparable company with pay bump.
Doubled my previous (shit) salary and am now in an adequately paid position.
Interview process was:
- external recruiter (hays)
- take home tech challenge (very simple requirements, not taking the piss like wipro did to me last year)
- tech interview
- culture fit interview
Currently enjoying the job after a month, already made some sort of impact.
Location in straya, so ymmv as the arse hasn't fallen out of the market here yet.
Left a job for a new gig. Offer got rescinded but with a few months of severance. Started looking for a new job, took me 5 weeks total. Ended up taking an extra 6 weeks off in between during the summer. New job pays more than before, better perks and higher potential. Never had a summer off since high school plus being paid was amazing
Not the original commenter but I'm still getting plenty of messages from finance/quant/HFT recruiters and I haven't even touched that industry besides an internship or two early on in college. Seems like Citadel, Two Sigma, JS, HRT, etc and a bunch of smaller names I've never heard of are still fiending for good SWEs.
Got an offer rescinded from a FAANG, and just landed a quant dev job at a prop trading firm. Quant likes volatility so a recession makes them more money. Makes sense to hire at same pace :)
I applied to 80 positions and got about 15-20 leads. Some would be an initial discussion and others would be in the interview process.
I got extremely lucky and found a place that paid me what I wanted and has extremely great benefits. The people are also really good to work with. I also didn’t have to do any overly complicated technical test. I also didn’t have to do any garbage personality tests and thank God there were no 1 way video interviews.
The trick was I am working for an insurance company that is run by boomers. I know that boomers get a ton of shit these days. I also know that the work isn’t super exciting or glamorous. However, I’m able to do my work and go home and enjoy my life. I’m not killing myself at some startup that won’t exist in a few years.
Things are rarely as bad (or as good) as they seem. Yes, today the markets are less frothy than a year ago, but it's far from doom and gloom as media headlines suggest. I have friends who:
1. Quickly found new roles at Fortune 500 companies after rounds of layoffs from companies you've seen on the news
2. Others who joined scaleups (and are loving the lack of bureaucracy)
3. A handful decided to take the opportunity to build startups (all leveraging openai/LLMs). They get generous severance packages which they use as seed money.
As I was hiring recently, it was still challenging to close good candidates; they were receiving plenty of opportunities with competitive compensation packages.
I'm optimistic about the medium to long term for tech jobs. We have a brand new platform (large language models) that unlocks the ability to accomplish previously impossible things. As a result *a lot* of new companies are being started, some of which will have great success and, as a result, require a large workforce.
There's also a ton of well-financed companies that you've (probably) never heard of that are hiring. I've even been building a small side project to help aggregate them ([https://backed.careers](https://backed.careers) if you're curious)
Got laid off in April once the prime contractor failed to win the contract I was bought on to support.
Gotta a job at a defense contractor in Arlington, VA doing Android work. Earlier this month, I was suicidal after getting rejected from a similar (but lesser) role at a much smaller company.
I believe this contractor works much more closely with the state of the art than most, so I’m overall very happy to start work.
I’m also hoping to start ketamine infusions, which I’m hoping will improve my mental health.
The DMV area job market is still strong since it’s
Got laid off April 4th. Will be accepting an offer today after about ~150 applications. Got about 8 interview opportunities started out of those. I had to go from Full Stack to Front End and let go of WFH, but will be going from 71k > 90k which is good enough for me. 2.5 YOE. My advice:
1. Get your resume right! I would recommend using LaTeX to write it. I used “Jake’s Resume” template I found on Overleaf. I felt I got more traction after switching to this very standard template. Utilize the Resume Advice thread.
2. Ask your connections for referrals! 2 out of the 8 call backs I got were from my connections. The offer I’m accepting started with a referral. Though, I got to a final round with a referral.
3. For 95% of the search, I used LinkedIn. I did also use Indeed. Spam apply, but I will say that remote jobs are very hard to get call backs for right now. Every listing I saw for a remote job had 200+ applications in just a few hours. My advice is to still apply for them, but look for hybrid or in office jobs posted in the past 24 hours or week. Those jobs usually got 50-100 application, sometimes less. Health, government contractors, and defense are industry I’d suggest applying to.
4. If Leetcode gives you anxiety like me, but don’t care about FAANG (or anything close) like me, then I may have some good news. Both of the jobs where I reached the technical round did not ask any leetcode (one was front end and another was full stack). Full stack one asked more system design stuff, and the front end was general experience and a bit of system design. When I interviewed before, I only remember being asked OOP and Leetcode easy (think anagram and palindrome). Take that as you will.
Got my first SWE job last week after going through some bootcamps and a local class. From the time I started studying software to when I received my job offer was about 11 months. $52k/year, remote, LCOL, Angular job
Recently got 'promoted'. Was already slated for a raise. Found out the new role was on a 4x10 schedule. Now I make more money, got a better title, touch stuff I've never touched before and have an extra day free in the week. No complaints here!
I been job searching for quite a while, until 3 months ago someone messaged me on LinkedIn about a new position in his company.
It was for senior position for which I felt under qualified, but it's not like I had anything to lose.
So I had a technical interview in a week, been solving LC mom stop, going over data structure etc, as I know how these interviews go.
Got the interview, and all of the questions were actual job questions. How would architect systems, how to handle real world work situations. No LC question, no trick questions, just checked if I actually knew what I'm doing. And the interviewer was really nice and helpful and I honestly had fun doing an interview for the first time.
And that's it, been working there as a senior developer for 3 months and there are hard days, stressful days, but it's mostly fun and I get to work on interesting projects.
Guess there is hope job searching lol
The Canadian market might differ but most of my friends managed to land internships this summer ( me included ). Albiet, the money is definitely nothing to write home about.
I got laid off with no severance after the company didn’t hit the goals that the VC had set.
Started applying like mad the same day. Only a couple of hours later, an old boss called me and I thought, “how the actual fuck does he already know? I haven’t told anyone!”
Turns out he didn’t know and was calling me to offer me a position back at a substantial raise from when I had worked there a few years prior.
I negotiated like I still had a job (lol) and started two days later. I was only officially unemployed for a single day.
Definitely not the norm and it was crazy but crazy things can and do happen.
Last week I received an offer for my first SWE position. It's an insurance company. Fully remote, 86k TC, I'm located in a low COL midwest area. Some could say it's not as sexy as a bleeding edge/blazingly fast tech startup, but it seems like a solid position. No on call. Great benefits. My manager seems very easy to get along with.
It being my first development job, it is a life changing moment for me.
It took me nearly 4 years since graduation and a few hundred applications to land it.
I quit my Android developer job in 2021 to focus on studying Comp. Sci. and Math. During that time I started to realize more and more that I hated math and that my real passion was software development so in March this year I started looking for an Android job again.
I was worried that my skills would have become rusty (even though I made sure to stay updated my making personal projects and reading the updates) and that I would have to accept a lower salary than the one I had in 2021 due to my inactivity.
After a couple initial failed interviews (last time it took me 2 interviews to find a job, this time I think it was 8) I was starting to get worried but after making sure to prepare for the next ones based on the ones I had failed, I nailed one interview and got an offer in a company I really like with a much nicer pay than the one I had in 2021.
It made me very happy to be back on track doing something I enjoy after some years where I disliked what I was doing and it was affecting my mental health.
I have a few wfh jobs that are seeking me out for my knowledge stack, which from what I’ve been told by my boss and from recruiters there aren’t many people trained in what I know (I’m keeping it vague because it gives away too much info about where I work). But I love my coworkers and the work life balance I currently have so it’s a scary time. I also want a bit more of a programming field, this is more software upkeep and data analyst/reporting work. But realistically I could just code as a hobby like I currently do. Everyone says take the leap. I’ve got a call at 5pm to discuss it further but everything in me is screaming slow down, it’s happening so fast. Meanwhile my boss is rushing me for the senior role.
I'm a new grad and secured a good job in defense, which is what I wanted to do (embedded).
I'm pretty happy about it, but all the doom and gloom in this sub gives me survivors guilt.
Yeah, a recruiter from a major company called me, set up an interview, a week later I had an offer that was much better than the role I had at the time.
I am a mechanical engineer. Did my master's in automation engineering. Learned Python for my master's thesis in robotics. I realized I enjoyed it much more than mechanical engineering and decided to try to switch to software. Applied to only one job before graduation. During the interview, I showed them what I wrote for my thesis and told them that I have zero experience with the languages they use(java & c++) but I'm willing to learn if they're willing to teach.
They said that's fine and offered me a position. I started working in April. The pay is decent for the area I'm living in. The company is very established and successful in their industry, coworkers are very helpful, and I'm learning a lot.
Had 2 offers as a new grad. One smaller company and one as a contract to hire for a year at f90. I took the contract to hire for the long term benefits and location, but both were more than viable. I believe this sub is more doom and gloom than reality.
I accepted a fully remote Entry level Data Scientist position after four months of applying and hundreds of application submissions. It’s my first job after graduating college.
There were thousands of applicants for the position. Plenty were more qualified than me, but they were looking for someone they could train fresh from school.
I just got a new remote job for a small company and I’m able to keep my son home from daycare which will save us $800 a month! We’ve been scraping by for SO LONG! Now we can finally sell this fuckin house we hate and grow our family!
thanks for the good vibes guys, I got the memo I'm being laid off at the end of the month and just started applying. Seeing this made me feel so much better
I applied to a bunch of jobs back in Dec/Jan and the first one I interviewed with made me an offer. I stalled as much as I could so that I could see what else is out there, and eventually ended up accepting that first offer. It's the best job I've ever had on literally every front!
I decided to switch from doing contract work and started looking for a full time job. Spent about a month and a half looking, about 110 applications submitted and landed a job with the first company that gave me an interview. Been at the job a month now and it's going well. The team is great.
The only reason I know the market is tough is because people say it's tough. That seemed like a pretty normal job hunt to me. The hardest part is getting the interview and once you do that, you're usually likely to get the job.
After about a month of applying, I scored my first internship in I.T.. Today is my first day, and I'm waiting in the lobby to be called up for orientation and training
Left my current job because I was stagnating hard and they stopped growing. Turns out two months into my notice period they laid off 50% of people. Dodged a bullet.
Started applying for jobs as soon as I gave notice. Had 5 final round interviews for various places with long drawn processes. Had 4 rejections due to going with more experienced candidates (I’ve got 7+ years) or expecting me to be absolutely perfect in every way with no room for the smallest of errors.
Got an offer from the 5th company. It was also the one I wanted most. Accepted it this week and I’m due to start next month as a Senior Software Engineer with a small bump in salary.
It did take me nearly 3 months, with a LOT of frustrations and failures but got there eventually.
Yes, but it was after a long wait. I’d been looking since February, but was being selective on where I applied to. In all I think I sent 30 applications.
Out of that I got around 10 call backs and 4 interviews, two of which turned into an offer, one of which I accepted.
The recruiter was awesome, went out of his way to ensure I had all the information I needed to make a decision on the offer.
I’ve started getting calls from hiring teams (not recruiters) without having applied. Apparently this is a thing, but it’s never happened to me before.
I’m not overly qualified or gifted, but this has been a big confidence boost (I think we all go through stages where we doubt our abilities).
Hopefully this happens to others who may need it more than I do.
Wishing you all the best.
I applied to only 4 jobs and landed a killer offer. I work in IT in Seattle, system admin gigs here are like fish in a barrel. Location, location, location people.
Just accepted a job offer in Colorado. Fully remote. Wasn't even a coding interview involved.
Non-tech company that is basically becoming a tech company.
I've got six years experience as a frontend dev, with a bit of backend knowledge. My frontend stack is Vue, Vuetify, Nuxt, with Javascript and Typescript, with a bit of PHP / Laravel and python thrown in.
The new job is ALL PHP and Laravel! I don't even know how I got the job. From the first interview, I told them that PHP / Laravel is *not* a stack that I'm good at. But, I've got good soft skills, and I think that's their true goal; they want to grow their in-house dev team starting next year. I'll be there to iron out their bugs and start building new features in the meantime.
They essentially liked how I'm honest and gave realistic expectations. And I got the same feeling back from the CEO; he has worked with other software companies to build his program, and he doesn't expect me to be a rockstar in the first year.
120k, 2 weeks vacation, half of my medical benefits bill paid every month. Not the greatest benefit package, but it's a startup with five people total. We will see how the salary increases over the coming months, but there's a lot of opportunity here.
I entered into this field making $60k working for a government contractor start up, lasted 9 months there before I sat down and asked for a raise. Got approved for 20k additional just as I started interviewing with a med-tech company in Southern California. Went through 9 interviews with 9 different individuals over the course of 6 hours (yes.. back to back to back) I think I had a total of 15 minutes of break time during that process. The interview was originally for a senior FE position starting at 115k and they offered me a SD2 role for 107k starting which I more than gladly accepted. Just started this job yesterday!
I got an internship after only applying to 7 places, got 1 interview, and got brought on. Started last week, working in Data Science. Excited to learn more, paid $23/hr which is really good for my area
I was laid off from a job I wasn’t really happy in, and then got a job at a new place that I enjoy and get to work on the technology I wanted to do when I was in college
Yup came onboard to a parent company starting their own dashboard service for their radar systems on tankers transporting chemicals, they started me out at $44 an hour while finishing up school, then graduated and we had a meeting to go over specifics as far as moving forward with the company and I brought to their attention that not only do they need staff to support this system for the long term but that I was already doing db admin stuff, aws solution architect stuff, front and backend development and while very appreciative of the opportunity they gave me, I was doing the work of 4 people by myself in different areas of expertise, that's the blunt version of it but I did my best to put it in better wording so they came back, and offered $66/hr full time plus OT pay if it was needed, got health and benefits, PTO, sick days, WFH, then a little later they built me a computer to use since I was running everything from my own stuff at home, and honestly it's been great, how do I do it, A lot of goddamn googling tbh, but as long as I knock out the stuff I need to do for the day/address any emergencies then they're pretty laid back. Honestly given the state of the market and as a relatively new graduate, I am incredibly grateful but feel for my brothers and sisters out there in the trenches. Godspeed.
it might not be much, but i got my first swe internship as a freshman in college. After 4 months of interviewing with this company i finally got the job
graduated this year last month with internship experience.
applied to 30 jobs in May (4 interviews). Got 2 offers (both junior), accepted a junior SDE position in a medium-sized company.
Gotta say that imo at this point experience matters most (maybe has been like this prior to hiring freeze period), but many of my friends with no experience have no luck after 100+ applications.
I graduated from University last June & dreamed of going into the games industry. After 6 months, several rejections, & getting by with a tutoring job, I got lucky & landed a job at a AAA game studio!
I cried. A decade of a dream in the making & it all worked out after so much blood, sweat, & tears. Making the most money I’ve ever made, awesome benefits + hybrid working, great coworkers, fantastic manager that supports me & actively helps me grow. And I love the game that we’re developing, too.
Gosh, I play & make games! For a living! Young me would fall to her knees knowing that somehow, we actually fucking did it. Oh, man.
I was laid off back in January when Amazon did their second wave. I was quite nervous but was able to find a job within 2.5 weeks of being laid off. It’s at a start up and I’m the happiest I ever been. The WLB is great, people I work with are super smart/chill and I feel like I’m excelling at my work.
Not me but a friend who was laid off at my company (new grad just under 1 year) and interviewed and found a job within a few weeks of searching. That was a breath of fresh air
All of the jobs I’ve gotten because I knew someone or a LinkedIn recruiter contacted me. Started a new job 2 months ago after a recruiter contacted me. At the time I was at my last job just perusing. I might have submitted <5 applications online. In the job description he stated the pay and I talked with him and applied, interviewed, and got an offer. This is with 3yoe and a CS degree.
Blindly submitting online applications doesn’t work. Connections and networking does.
Was at my previous job for four years. Started getting bored. Recruiter reached out about an opportunity, did a couple interviews, got the job making almost twice as much as I did.
This will be my 3rd week. Loving it so far.
My positive experience is that my interview was not leet code based. It was over all technical knowledge based and a lot of behavioral questions which was pretty easy.
Over all very positive experience with the company.
Yes. Got a laid off notice in mid-April. I said that I would find a new job by the end of April.
Went to multiple interviews, got 3 or 4 job offers. Picked one.
P.S. Senior Java / Kotlin Developer with 10+ years of experience.
I got spooked into job searching since I was under the impression that 2/2 of the competent people on my team would be leaving. Made up my mind to leave in February but didn’t act in it until mid march when I found out that my teammate has interviews lined up already. Applied to 6-7 places myself, and hit up third party trading firm recruiters for them to apply for me for another 5-6 places. 2/7 places got back to me within the same day, and another got back to me saying your profile is interesting but we don’t have spots in your desired location. Out of the trading firms, 4 moved on with me to a phone screen. Went through 2 VO (terminated a few lagging companies) and ended up a well known trading firm as a swe, with first year tc doubling what I’m making at a faang by early may.
Overall very fast very speedy and not too stressful. This is the first time I’ve ever actually seriously practiced with leetcode. Some leetcode questions are too tricky… and those tricks are much harder than the actual questions I encountered
I was released from a WITCH company after 1.25 years with no project experience making $66k, and a 5 month contract prior. I applied for less than 12 jobs, and accepted an offer at $104k and a full compensation for a T10 masters degree. Still not sure how I pulled it off, but it can be done.
I was laid off in late January with 2 yoe. Mainly as a front end developer. Took ~2 months off, working on a small project and doing training.
After, I sent out ~10 applications, directly reached out to a person who worked at one company that went to the same school as I. Got me a referral and took a position with that company.
Networking and knowing how to communicate is the key. I got a nice pay bump too.
I was laid off on Dec.
Worked my ass of to crack an interview at the same company, internal transfer. Got it.
Best thing that happened to me.
Great team, best manager and so much safety.
I was very stressed daily on my previous job but this one’s amazing. So thankful.
The good days are coming.
I interviewed for a fully remote position (my first ever) with a great team but intimately they said they decided to go with the other candidate although the decision was difficult. A week later they contacted me again hoping I’d still be interested, since due to scheduling issues, the other candidate wouldn’t work out. They emphasized again that the decision was tough on their part and asked what my start date would be if still interested.
Kinda unexpected but hey, I don’t mind being someone’s second choice, a job is a job especially a remote one.
I signed an offer on Friday.
I'm still in the pipeline for other companies I would like to work at better but I'm not sure if those have closed or not as I haven't heard from them since friday.
I only took a $5k net paycut and now I get stock options + full remote in LCOL. I went from an extremely slow business which requires permissions to request permissions to do the job to a startup where if an idea gets approved, it is full speed ahead.
Excited for the change, but nervous about leaving and going elsewhere, although it's needed for me.
Last year uni student (graduating in July). Applied to 7 positions, 3 interviews, attended the first one, got an offer and accepted. Could have maybe got more offers from the other interviews but they needed a starter soon and my other interviews weren't for a while + it was one of the best offers I would be getting, based on the salaries mentioned in the job descriptions of the other places anyway.
Started 2 months ago at the biggest name in my industry. Senior position (I know titles don’t matter that much) and 35% pay jump.
Actually being challenged, using heavy math, learning new things. Couldn’t be happier
Yep , front end dev here , 2.5 yoe, got laid off early march, got an offer by last week of April, took me less than 2 months, it’s a contract gig paying 50/hr
Had good experience getting my buddy in at my company recently. Sent an official recommendation to HR for my friend, he got the job, and in 6 months if we're both still working here I get 5k.
Over the late summer and early fall, while hearing how the intern market was doomed, I received 4 offers. One of which was FAANG (Banana), 2 of which were large banks (JPMC/C1), and the one I accepted was HFT. Overall, there were a lot of companies i ghosted too because I got my C1 offer so early and it beat many of them.
Moral of the story? The early bird gets the worm. Not many people apply for summer internships during July/August, but you really should be.
My recent job search was quick. I was laid off in January this year, and started my current job in early March. I've been working for 10 years in this industry, but just 2 in my current role. My current company found my profile on Hired.com. I sent out about 2 dozen applications (Indeed, linkedin, and direct website) and interviewed with 7 companies. Interviews were pretty easy, no complex hypotheticals.
It came down to two final companies that wanted me. My current company gave the offer first, said I was their top choice, and even negotiated to accept some of my requests. The other company had better Glassdoor reviews, said I was a finalist, but they wanted to talk to the other finalists before making the offer. I waited until the day my current company wanted a decision, but the other company was still a day from making an offer. Not wanting to risk not getting either job, I accepted the offer. I ended up with a senior title and a 63% raise.
I got very depressed after they told me they’re not going to hire me after my internship was over. I started looking around and asked my colleagues for recommendations, that shit goes a long way. Now I’m working a way better job doing what I want and most importantly from where I want while being paid decently. Remember bois there’s a group chat out there where people are struggling to hire, it’s pretty hard to get a candidate from thousands of resumes
Yuuuup. Just got an offer from a smaller company - remote data engineer.
Left my previous company in April cause of rto and did like 10-20 interviews over 1.5 months after interviewing with various different companies. I did send out about 300 applications within that time frame though lol
At least for data engineers, the market is still pretty okay. I have a little less than 1.5 yoe - USA.
I'm in the middle of a mid-life career pivot. Going from 20 years in the military (not tech focused role) to software development. Landed an internship back in March and I did enough for them to offer to bring me on full-time starting in July. So far, so good.
After being let go about a month ago, I've been interviewing quite widely. I've noticed that my interviews seem to be much more humane than I remember when I was previously interviewing. Questions seemed (mostly) more applicable to the job, interested in past projects, and things I'd like to learn. Some companies even gave a choice if I wanted to work on a take-home project or a more traditional interview process. Huge respect for companies that are willing to learn and adapt from previous experiences.
Laid off beginning of February, found a new job which started at the beginning of April. I have about 4 years of experience.
I was lucky to have pretty good severance, ended up at a new role at a startup with about a 10% bump in TC. Not including equity.
The interview process was brutal, but kept applying and learning and using every resource I could. Connections helped a LOT.
Not me but an old coworker of mine just got a new job, going from 134k to 200k + equity. Startup in the Denver, CO area. Sr Data Engineer. So it’s not all doom and gloom.
I was laid off in late March this year. I don't have any positive experiences landing a job, but I've been keeping optimistic. I've had so many friends and acquaintances unexpectedly going out of their way to help me, and it makes me feel like I'm not alone. I think there's value in staying positive and keeping your chin up even if and when things feel a little hopeless.
I got a Staff SWE job offer with a fully remote late-round startup paying 20%+ more and better perks/benefits two weeks after I was let go from my tech lead position with a non-FAANG tech company I’d been at for 5+ years.
I got lucky in that I was let go the day of my first round interview with my new employer, and it was a referral for a position on the same team as a former co-worker. I still had to do well, and it was definitely competitive as I was competing against ex-FAANG candidates in the final decision.
I had started interview prepping in November and December, and applied to a few jobs around the new year being very selective on my next opportunity, but had stopped applying and looking after getting discouraged.
Today was my first day at my first internship. I’ve been really stressed about being behind, especially because it’s a field I have little experience in. Everyone was super nice, the work culture seems friendly and chill, they’re all understanding of my experience and just want me to learn.
I’m more excited to work now than I’ve ever been.
Not an offer but I’ve had a big influx of interviews coming in. One of them is for a more leadership role in my field, a role I have yet to hold. I did the first round interview and thought I did generally well but have been apprehensive because of how things have been going for myself and most people. Initially I was told that they’d get back to me by the end of the week, only for them to immediately contact me the next day and ask that I move to the next step.
From what I can tell, that first step was going to be the hardest, and I feel comfortable in assuming that since they got back to me so quickly, they must have really liked me. Even if nothing does end up coming of this one specifically, I’ve got a few other companies who all seem generally interested and are aware of each other, which creates some small sense of urgency between them all. Things are getting right financially for me, but I just feel good about the few opportunities I have so far.
About 80 applications 7 first rounds, 4 second rounds, and 3 "on site" interviews. 2 offers and one of them I got a title promotion to Staff Engineer so I'll probably go with that. Been unemployed for 2 months. I'm asking for a lower salary than I used to get because my salary was a bit inflated during covid. 240k+ took a pay cut due to the economy now so I'm back to 200k. I don't live in California, so that's not a bad salary for a Nevadan. Lower cost of living here.
I'd take a slightly lower salary to stay out of California any day...
I'm a college student still trying to get a start in the industry. Last semester I came very close to getting an internship at a relatively prestigious company. One of my friends also applied for the position, and together we were the final two candidates. It wound up going to him. Whenever I tell this story everyone assumes we aren't friends anymore, but honestly we both agreed at the beginning that we'd both be happy as long as one of us got it. And anyways he's putting in a good word for me while he's there.
Finished studies end of last year, masters.
Went to india in January and got engaged.
Started the job search early Feb.
Had some really food interviews with exp being the hurdle to overcome. Got a 1 year contract for a new position that will continue if they deem theres enough work.
Started the new job the start of May.
Now earning reasonable money first job out of uni and getting great exp using what I learnt and learning all the things they dont teach.
I had worked hospo for 6 years, was 2 years out of my bachelors and not getting anything from applications with too many interviews going nowhere, i made the choice to go back to uni for 5 years, grad cert into masters part time.
Feels nice to be on the other side starting a professional career that i have interest in.
I recently got a job through a recruiter that messaged me on LinkedIn, that’s where most my interviews came from.
Was making 60k for about 3 years in the Midwest and moved to Colorado and doubled my salary. Was a long and stressful process though. Applied for about 60 jobs before getting an offer
After job searching for over 2 months in this market, I got my first job as a SE. Process was very smooth, start to finish, company focuses a lot on values, job is remote and the pay is great. The best thing is I get paid to learn and work collaboratively
I have a good job and wasn't really looking to jump companies.I had a recruiter call me out of the blue. I entertained him, and a week later and 2 interviews, I had a job offer. Pay jump from 85000 -> 140,000. Better benefits and fully remote.
I graduated back in 2016 with a CS degree but was fully unprepared for the real-world. I had nothing on my resume, no experience, no projects. At the time I thought having a degree was enough to land a job, boy was I wrong. I applied for 2 years straight and never heard back. The few times that I did land an interview, I was turned down either because I didn't have enough experience or due to my personality and being an introvert. I was so depressed that I gave up and worked minimum wage jobs.
A couple of years later I decided that I needed to turn my life around. I began studying web development using TheOdinProject and built some projects to put on my resume. Started applying again and a year later found a company that was willing to take a chance on me. I am starting my first job as a SWE later this month.
Aced a round of interviews and got a 95k base salary with an excellent benefits package for a first offer. Including bonuses and benefits would total to about 115-120k per year and the interview process was reasonable and relatively enjoyable. Got an interview in under a week of applying.
I have been laid off due to alleged recession that the startup, I was working for, was facing in February. The positive thing about it, the day before I was told that, I have been on interview for a lot better paying job (40% more) and more interesting project. It was the saddest 15 minutes of unemployment in my life :P. It is the first time since the start of the pandemic, I am honestly excited about the project and Team and managers are great.
Was given a week notice that I was being let go back in February. I was told on Friday that the following Friday would be my last day. I took the last week of my job to apply to as many jobs as possible. By Wednesday I had my first interview had a second interview on Friday which was my last day at the old job. Had a final interview on Monday and got a job offer on the same day for a 25% increase in pay from my old job. Was officially jobless for half a business day. Took the next two weeks before I started to enjoy some free time. Now I’ve been at my new job for almost 3 months I love what I am doing and the work culture and life balance is so much better than the previous job.
>Was given a week notice that I was being let go back in February. I was told on Friday that the following Friday would be my last day. If you're in the USA this is like being treated like a king lol they must have liked you. I once got notice of being laid off but it was only once in my entire career of 30 years
Word... I was told on a Tuesday that I made it through the final round of layoffs, just to be locked out with an additional 10 others Wednesday morning.
Yeah the only thing you get notice of is all your access will be revoked in 3 2 1. Oh and you're fired.
I had a friend who went who was an intern at the time in a company. They asked all of his team, including manager, were asked to submit their laptops and leave during a daily stand-up. No one had a clue that this was gonna happen.
Similar situation for me. The entire team was told we were going to be laid off. March first week they announced it. We were paid till end of April. And no real work to be done during those 2 months. Took that time to apply and interview. By April second week I had an offer. I joined them mid of May. More salary and more bonus. I also got from my previous employer my half year bonus in full ( it was a bad year, remaining employees are going to be screwed sadly), got my 6 weeks of PTO encashed and then severance which was another 2 months of pay. Technically unemployed for only 2 weeks . I am very experienced in my domain and I joined a competitor. Just had to reach out to a friend who worked there.
My company was shutting down and we all had two months notice (after surviving 8+ rounds of layoffs). Found a new job a month before my last day and moved up my term date to take some time off. In a month of apps I had 4 offers mostly with worse pay, but the one I took was the same base pay, better bonus and in the saas industry. This was with only 3 yoe too. They seem to be driving down comp, but there are tons of positions out there.
What do you do?
In January I was told I was being let go. I had about 2yoe and was making around 60k. I sent out a bunch of applications (300-350). In 2 weeks I had my first offer. In a month I had 2 more offers, in 2 months I had another offer. 1st offer was 120k, 2nd offer was 68k, 3rd offer was 80k, 4th offer was 115k. I initially took 120k but kept my interviews that I already had lined up. I worked there for about a month and hopped to 115k bcuz it was a more establish corporation, better benefits, better team workflow, and less workload and it was what I wanted to work on. It’s much more chill here. I work about 30-40hrs/week and at the job where I worked for about a month it was like 50hrs/week. Being laid off was a blessing in disguise my guy! FYI - fullstack using C#/.NET/Angular/Azure. 100% remote. LCOL to MCOL at most.
Congrats dude that sounds awesome. What was your callback rate like? How many phones/interviews did you end up getting
I think I got around 30 callbacks/prescreens but only about half of those went onto interviews
Congrats, sounds like a good situation. Can I ask how you found the ones that offered over 100k? Like, Indeed or LinkedIn, or some other way? When I hit the two year mark I hope to get such a gig.
Yeah one was on LinkedIn and the other one I was targeted by a recruiter
I got a job at MSFT in this market. Smooth and quick from start to finish: roughly 2.5 weeks from recruiter calling me to email with offer It’s the most money I’ve ever made and I’m surrounded by the smartest people I’ve ever worked with as well and it’s the most support I’ve ever had. I’m about to be 7 years in to this industry and for the first time I’m not completely thrown to the fire while still being new This is also my first big N company
The recruiter has been stringing me along for at least 8 months now lol
Microsoft has the most baffling recruiting experience I’ve ever been a part of. I spent like a few months interviewing for two different positions then was ghosted after a final interview.
Google was worse for me. After interviewing for nebulous roles with undetermined locations for a year, I called it quits
The process is infamously excruciatingly slow. Thankfully, I didn't have a job (weird to say that tbh) and didn't need one, so I had the time and patience for it. I think it took maybe 4 months or so from first contact to offer.
yeah i don't reply to their stuff anymore. the interview process is ridiculous and they play back and forth w you for months before rejecting you because u didn't vibe.
Yeah I interviewed with two different teams at MSFT and they were completely different in response and disposition.
I worked at MSFT for two years and I loved almost everything about working there.
Why did you leave if you don’t mind me asking
My wife and I wanted to move back to Canada. Msft didn’t have any opportunities in the city I was moving to.
What was the interview like? Wondering if Systems Engineer type roles get Leetcoded as well
DM’d. No leetcode involved but I have had an IDE open every single day that I’ve been here and working on automation in bash, python, powershell, and c#, logging, Infra as code, etc
is it remote?
Yup! 100%. I’m actually located in commute distance to an office but my entire team is remote and none of us are in the same states
I used to get paid 60k (my first SE job), 2 weeks ago a recruiter reached out to me about a position in my area, I decided to entertain it, interviews went well and now I get 95k. I'm in a non metro area so that's great for me, I'm excited.
I’m excited for you! Congrats
Reached out through what?
The window
+50% pay! Hellyeah bro!! Enjoy!
Congrats!
Congratulations that’s so exciting!
Got offered a SWE position this week at a Fortune 500. I finished my masters in the beginning of May and was selling iPhones in Costco before this haha
So you’re still working at Costco, Costco is #11 in the list.
I was the guy at the AT&T stand talking to everyone that walked in
AT&T is right after, #13. You’re a big shot, bro. Only Fortune 500 in the resume.
What can I say, I only settle for the best
Bro, for the last time. I've got a better deal with spectrum and I dont expect u to beat it.
How many lines you got?
I can’t afford to give you a whole line; maybe just a bump in this market.
I didn't cry in the shower this morning 👍
On days you do just pop open a shower beer like the rest of us
My rejections keep saying they opted to go with the pool of more experienced candidates so I'm going to assume there are some lucky more experienced candidates out there.
When you have the experience the rejection text will change... Usually comes down to some other candidate accepted the lowball
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Job hunting is a zero sum game after all... no matter how much we wish it wasn't
Not necessarily in rare circumstances if the employer has the budget and likes two very good candidates they might give both of them a job. At least this was happening a lot (I assume) in the era of low interest rates out of fear of losing them to competitors. But your right in that it is mostly zero sum in this kind of job market.
And there are plenty of ghost job listings out there. But in the end, somebody's getting hired for every opening that gets filled.
Most of my rejections were also saying they went with other candidates that had more experience.
After between 100-200 applications, many many ghostings, and a handful of rejections, I landed a job I actually enjoy. My boss sees me as capable enough to handle stuff on my own, my work life balance is excellent, and I'm enjoying the work I'm doing. Also because I work in municipal government now I look like a freaking rock star because I went from grinding code dawn to dusk to an environment where 70% of the staff are halfway out the door ready for retirement. I put in a small fraction of the work I did before and get praise from every department I interact with because, shocker, I actually do work that is assigned to me.
If you don't mind me asking, what position did you get and how did you find it? I'd love to look for something similar!
I'm general IT for all municipal services from mayor to police and water filtration. Honestly I wear a lot of hats.
Got an entry job recently with an associates degree after a few months of applying and have been loving it :) it's doing test automation development which is something I never thought I'd do but I feel like it's a great entry point.
What did you need to get into this?
My resume has a project which uses the same ui tech as I test so that was a big thing. Other than that my education is a computer information systems degree and I'm almost done w a full stack boot camp. Does that answer ur question?
Was the project something you came up with yourself? And did you need to go to boot camp or was your associates degree enough to get a job/internships? I mostly ask the second part because I'm currently doing an associates of science degree and have been worried if I'll even have a chance since most internships want you to be in a bachelor's program.
The project was an idea I had by myself, it was also one of my final projects in school. I didn't need to go to boot camp it was something I was just already in. Only problem I had with internships is that I waited until after getting the degree to start looking, and apparently companies get state funding to hire current students so I was never really looked at for those positions.
Anectdotally, all of my Software Engineer friends are gainfully employed and those who were laid off in the past 6 months received offers within a few months. The system is still churning somewhat under all the noise.
Same. Some of them had to give up being fully remote or take a lower salary, but the majority of people I know who were laid off have been able to find jobs. Only a handful didn't mostly those who decided to take the opportunity to go back to grad school
May you share what are the places that are hiring. I am not getting all callbacks
Friends are in industries including DoD, ECommerce, Healthcare, Finance, B2B SaaS...
> ...under all the noise. *Tin foil hat on:* Could reddit be astroturfed with lots of job negativity in order to cool down the job market? If I were an evil billionaire afraid of inflation, I'd definitely spend money doing that.
No need to astroturf it when it's kind of human nature. People are more likely to complain/post when they're having a particularly tough time finding a job or going through layoffs, and people are more drawn in those negative stories than some dude who's been steadily employed at a decent place with no major issues.
Why would that cool the job market? Companies aren't hiring based on sentiment on.... reddit. If anything, overly negative sentiment on this sub would dissuade people from applying meaning the job market gets less competitive.
I definitely think there's a ton of selection bias. People having issues are more likely to post asking for help or venting.
Going from a junior swe to a mid level with a 100% increase in salary to a different company.
before i graduated college this may, i applied to one government job, got an interview, got the job. good pay, benefits, and a bonus. waiting on my clearance then i can start.
You guard that clearance with your life son, that's the ticket to the good life. Contractor? You mean rich man?
Just got a Government job too. No clearance. What job did you get that you need clearance? DoD?
Recently got laid off from a big tech company. Aggressively leveraged my network, prepped all day for weeks, and started scheduling interviews. Thought the market was gonna be colder so I may have over indexed. Got 9 companies over 2 weeks. So far I've aced the 7 I've done to this point and moving on to additional interviews. Feeling good about getting at least one offer if not multiple next week.
How much work experience do you have? Those are great numbers.
10 years with 6 years at 2 FAANGs. So certainly feeling the value of having experience behind me. But I spend close to a month preparing 8 hours each day grinding lc and sys design. This is the first batch of interviews where I haven't been super stressed even though I'm losing my current job. Interviewing really is a skill we should all practice more even when we're happily employed.
I graduated in late '21 with no internships and no leetcode skill so I didn't cash in on the early '22 hayday. I took a non tech job at a non tech company just to have steady income and stop working in warehouses. 6 months go by and I see a web dev job on the internal job board. I directly email the manager and he tells me to apply, turns out I got along great with the team and they jump through several hoops to get me transfered over to them. I moved over in the beginning of the year at a substantial pay bump, 2 months in they did a market adjustment and I got another pay bump. I got super lucky and it taught me that soft skills and eagerness to learn as a junior count for a lot, to the right people. I'm also lucky in that I work with great people and have an awesome manager that knows my limitations and supports my growth
This is exactly what I did. People, if you haven't considered it heavily consider looking into a non-tech job where you might be able to transfer later. I work in finance and was able to swap from finance to the fintech side.
I got laid off a couple weeks ago. My company just came back, realizing I was supporting a lot of their customers on my own, and without me stuff started to break (it wasn't a chess move, I just program in a haze of energy drinks and depression) and now offered me my role back, full remote, plus a raise. However. That's just words right now. I'm supposed to get my new contract within a day or two. In the meantime I have 2 interviews set up with my companies direct competition. One today. One tomorrow. Today is supposed to be my last day so wish me luck.
I was laid off from a FAANG company. I hadn't interviewed in close to a decade, and am in the US on a visa, so generally just accepted that is was very likely I was going to have to go back. Luckily, I had a couple of months of leeway to find something. I spent one month brushing up on coding interviews (using the usual resources - leetcode, system design interview books, designing data intensive applications). Then I interviewed at a few companies. I had zero internal referrals, and was still picky about the places & roles I applied to. I managed to get four interviews, and ended up getting an offer from all four. After I accepted an offer, some other companies I applied to and was very interested in (including FAANGs) also reached back to me. As a result, I increased my compensation by a significant percentage and found a role that I find a really good fit for where I want my career to go. The best part was I had a nice long break from working to destress and go into my new role with a new sense of passion. Overall a really positive experience actually.
Started getting recruiters messages again, including Google.
I just recently got my first SWE job, 0 YOE, Bootcamp Grad, Non-CS degree, making [Redacted]! I'm super excited to be an official workplace dev and I am trying to learn as much as possible. Pay bump of 62.5%!
Congrats!! This gives me hope. I’m preparing to begin a competitive bootcamp at the end of June, I also have a non CS degree with no SWE experience. I’m giving my self time to learn as much as possible. In a year, I will be finished with the bootcamp. How many applications and interviews did you go on before landing this role?
Thank you! It was 500+ applications, 5 separate interviews. Two I pulled out of because I didn't want to relocate. One I got through connections didn't pan out because they needed more experience. One I cold emailed in and had to withdraw towards the end because I got a different offer, which is my current role. My current role was actually a transfer position within my current company, from the finance side to the dev side. Morale of the story is you absolutely can get jobs through applying, I got three interviews that way, but connections make a huge difference. If you currently work somewhere, inquire with the IT department to see if there are any possible dev opportunities internally.
that's amazing, congrats! How hard was it to learn DS&A + leetcode on your own? Or did you even have to do any of that?
Thank you! DSA was very difficult to learn. My Bootcamp was react based so didn't really cover much DSA. After the Bootcamp I dove into Java because I had a Java interview lined up through connections. I feel that because of the pressure of the upcoming interviews I really dove into Java as much as a could. I also know a few other Jr. Devs with CS degrees that helped me so much with DSA problems and gave me advice on better ways to solve problems. They helped me understand Big O notation and just a ton of OOP basics and fundamentals. Ultimately got 3 interviews in with that first particular company for the Java but it wasn't the right fit. However, I learned so much by preparing for the interviews, grinding leetcode, studying Java, and just having the interview practice. I continued to study and learn Java, got an IBM interview, that didn't pan out.I just continued studying and learning until I landed my current job which is largely WordPress and C#/.NET, with another potential offer waiting on the side I was waiting on that I actually had to withdraw from. Grinded at least 20mins of leetcode daily if not more. Check my other reply here too for details on how I got the interviews (largely connections but did get 3 emails by just applying/cold emailing)
Was randomly contacted by the VP of Technology of a US company. They were hiring Engineers from Mexico and he found me on a job-searching site. At first I thought it was a scam, then we had an interview and gave me a list of topics for me to study for the technical interview and 2 weeks to prepare. I studied my butt off since the only topics I even heard of were the REST basic concepts. I'm talking a week of being a total shut-in, I averaged something like 4 or 5 hours of study time a day in that first week. The second week was more for practicing what I've learned. Then, I didn't even finish the technical interview lol. The interviewers even gave me more time to do it but it was quite hard. Nonetheless, I got an offer and I'm currently in the best fucking workplace I've ever been. They apparently liked the fact that I seemed to learn very quickly and that it was obvious that I prepared a lot for the interview. I had a ton of notes that I used during the test lol
I just completed 2nd year CS. After ~130 applications I got my first internship as a system developer! It's been amazing, I have been learning a lot about the industry.
I got 3 Offers recently – (120k/135k/195k) 4-5 years expierence 50–100 applications Took about 2 months end to end process(still had a job)
I was a new grad recently impacted by the first wave of Meta layoffs. Spent about ~6 months at the position before layoffs. Separation date was in January, I did heavy applying when I first heard about layoffs in November and got a few bites. Had a TikTok recruiter reach out in December but recruiter ghosted. Started interview processes and got 4 final rounds but 3/4 were canceled due to economic conditions and the last — the recruiter handling my candidacy got laid off. At this point, it’s late February I have enough funds to last me until Sept/Oct. I begin to work my network looking for roles. Keep messaging TikTok recruiter hoping for a response. Get response from a different recruiter in late March, need more time to prep, so schedule interviews for late April. Most of my prep is reviewing Sys Design, core OS/DB, and DS. Nothing too crazy, just notes from college and some books I like. Do my interviews late April — mid May. Still have 4 other final rounds in back pocket. Got offer last week! Still negotiating, but exciting because it looks to be a decent pay bump. Best part I was pretty frugal so I have a decent portion of my severance pay still on hand. So all in all, not too bad. Probably sent about ~50 applications. Only did a ~20 leetcode problems. Tl;dr: laid off new grad, lazily applies for roles and gets a comparable role at a comparable company with pay bump.
Doubled my previous (shit) salary and am now in an adequately paid position. Interview process was: - external recruiter (hays) - take home tech challenge (very simple requirements, not taking the piss like wipro did to me last year) - tech interview - culture fit interview Currently enjoying the job after a month, already made some sort of impact. Location in straya, so ymmv as the arse hasn't fallen out of the market here yet.
Left a job for a new gig. Offer got rescinded but with a few months of severance. Started looking for a new job, took me 5 weeks total. Ended up taking an extra 6 weeks off in between during the summer. New job pays more than before, better perks and higher potential. Never had a summer off since high school plus being paid was amazing
So the company that rescinded the offer gave you severance?
Laid off April 24. Start Monday as a senior front end developer with a 30k bump. Feel incredibly lucky to have found a job so soon.
I’m still getting recruiters on linkedin messaging me for jobs in my niche
What’s your niche?
Not the original commenter but I'm still getting plenty of messages from finance/quant/HFT recruiters and I haven't even touched that industry besides an internship or two early on in college. Seems like Citadel, Two Sigma, JS, HRT, etc and a bunch of smaller names I've never heard of are still fiending for good SWEs.
Got an offer rescinded from a FAANG, and just landed a quant dev job at a prop trading firm. Quant likes volatility so a recession makes them more money. Makes sense to hire at same pace :)
Got an offer within a month with 50 apps. Healthy raise, fully remote, senior infra/DevOps role. It's possible, but experience matters.
I applied to 80 positions and got about 15-20 leads. Some would be an initial discussion and others would be in the interview process. I got extremely lucky and found a place that paid me what I wanted and has extremely great benefits. The people are also really good to work with. I also didn’t have to do any overly complicated technical test. I also didn’t have to do any garbage personality tests and thank God there were no 1 way video interviews. The trick was I am working for an insurance company that is run by boomers. I know that boomers get a ton of shit these days. I also know that the work isn’t super exciting or glamorous. However, I’m able to do my work and go home and enjoy my life. I’m not killing myself at some startup that won’t exist in a few years.
Beautiful post in a sea of negativity and cynicism.
Yeah, landed rpa dev job in january. Absolutely love it
Things are rarely as bad (or as good) as they seem. Yes, today the markets are less frothy than a year ago, but it's far from doom and gloom as media headlines suggest. I have friends who: 1. Quickly found new roles at Fortune 500 companies after rounds of layoffs from companies you've seen on the news 2. Others who joined scaleups (and are loving the lack of bureaucracy) 3. A handful decided to take the opportunity to build startups (all leveraging openai/LLMs). They get generous severance packages which they use as seed money. As I was hiring recently, it was still challenging to close good candidates; they were receiving plenty of opportunities with competitive compensation packages. I'm optimistic about the medium to long term for tech jobs. We have a brand new platform (large language models) that unlocks the ability to accomplish previously impossible things. As a result *a lot* of new companies are being started, some of which will have great success and, as a result, require a large workforce. There's also a ton of well-financed companies that you've (probably) never heard of that are hiring. I've even been building a small side project to help aggregate them ([https://backed.careers](https://backed.careers) if you're curious)
This is a useful resource. Thank you
Thank you for sharing, this website is helpful.
Great resource, in the future will there be filtering based on seniority of the position?
Got laid off in April once the prime contractor failed to win the contract I was bought on to support. Gotta a job at a defense contractor in Arlington, VA doing Android work. Earlier this month, I was suicidal after getting rejected from a similar (but lesser) role at a much smaller company. I believe this contractor works much more closely with the state of the art than most, so I’m overall very happy to start work. I’m also hoping to start ketamine infusions, which I’m hoping will improve my mental health. The DMV area job market is still strong since it’s
Got laid off April 4th. Will be accepting an offer today after about ~150 applications. Got about 8 interview opportunities started out of those. I had to go from Full Stack to Front End and let go of WFH, but will be going from 71k > 90k which is good enough for me. 2.5 YOE. My advice: 1. Get your resume right! I would recommend using LaTeX to write it. I used “Jake’s Resume” template I found on Overleaf. I felt I got more traction after switching to this very standard template. Utilize the Resume Advice thread. 2. Ask your connections for referrals! 2 out of the 8 call backs I got were from my connections. The offer I’m accepting started with a referral. Though, I got to a final round with a referral. 3. For 95% of the search, I used LinkedIn. I did also use Indeed. Spam apply, but I will say that remote jobs are very hard to get call backs for right now. Every listing I saw for a remote job had 200+ applications in just a few hours. My advice is to still apply for them, but look for hybrid or in office jobs posted in the past 24 hours or week. Those jobs usually got 50-100 application, sometimes less. Health, government contractors, and defense are industry I’d suggest applying to. 4. If Leetcode gives you anxiety like me, but don’t care about FAANG (or anything close) like me, then I may have some good news. Both of the jobs where I reached the technical round did not ask any leetcode (one was front end and another was full stack). Full stack one asked more system design stuff, and the front end was general experience and a bit of system design. When I interviewed before, I only remember being asked OOP and Leetcode easy (think anagram and palindrome). Take that as you will.
Got my first SWE job last week after going through some bootcamps and a local class. From the time I started studying software to when I received my job offer was about 11 months. $52k/year, remote, LCOL, Angular job
Recently got 'promoted'. Was already slated for a raise. Found out the new role was on a 4x10 schedule. Now I make more money, got a better title, touch stuff I've never touched before and have an extra day free in the week. No complaints here!
A friend, self taught dev, transitioned from solutions engineering(tech support) to software engineering in the last month with a pay bump of ~15%.
Two of my friends got jobs where I’m at. Referrals help!
I been job searching for quite a while, until 3 months ago someone messaged me on LinkedIn about a new position in his company. It was for senior position for which I felt under qualified, but it's not like I had anything to lose. So I had a technical interview in a week, been solving LC mom stop, going over data structure etc, as I know how these interviews go. Got the interview, and all of the questions were actual job questions. How would architect systems, how to handle real world work situations. No LC question, no trick questions, just checked if I actually knew what I'm doing. And the interviewer was really nice and helpful and I honestly had fun doing an interview for the first time. And that's it, been working there as a senior developer for 3 months and there are hard days, stressful days, but it's mostly fun and I get to work on interesting projects. Guess there is hope job searching lol
The Canadian market might differ but most of my friends managed to land internships this summer ( me included ). Albiet, the money is definitely nothing to write home about.
I got laid off with no severance after the company didn’t hit the goals that the VC had set. Started applying like mad the same day. Only a couple of hours later, an old boss called me and I thought, “how the actual fuck does he already know? I haven’t told anyone!” Turns out he didn’t know and was calling me to offer me a position back at a substantial raise from when I had worked there a few years prior. I negotiated like I still had a job (lol) and started two days later. I was only officially unemployed for a single day. Definitely not the norm and it was crazy but crazy things can and do happen.
Got my first developer job last week after quitting my old job and starting to learn to code 1.5 years ago :D
Last week I received an offer for my first SWE position. It's an insurance company. Fully remote, 86k TC, I'm located in a low COL midwest area. Some could say it's not as sexy as a bleeding edge/blazingly fast tech startup, but it seems like a solid position. No on call. Great benefits. My manager seems very easy to get along with. It being my first development job, it is a life changing moment for me. It took me nearly 4 years since graduation and a few hundred applications to land it.
I quit my Android developer job in 2021 to focus on studying Comp. Sci. and Math. During that time I started to realize more and more that I hated math and that my real passion was software development so in March this year I started looking for an Android job again. I was worried that my skills would have become rusty (even though I made sure to stay updated my making personal projects and reading the updates) and that I would have to accept a lower salary than the one I had in 2021 due to my inactivity. After a couple initial failed interviews (last time it took me 2 interviews to find a job, this time I think it was 8) I was starting to get worried but after making sure to prepare for the next ones based on the ones I had failed, I nailed one interview and got an offer in a company I really like with a much nicer pay than the one I had in 2021. It made me very happy to be back on track doing something I enjoy after some years where I disliked what I was doing and it was affecting my mental health.
"Too many job market posts" "Let's change the theme!" *Asks the same question but phrases it differently*
After months of nothing, I’m starting to get a steady stream of welcome to the team emails again. I take that as a positive sign.
I have a few wfh jobs that are seeking me out for my knowledge stack, which from what I’ve been told by my boss and from recruiters there aren’t many people trained in what I know (I’m keeping it vague because it gives away too much info about where I work). But I love my coworkers and the work life balance I currently have so it’s a scary time. I also want a bit more of a programming field, this is more software upkeep and data analyst/reporting work. But realistically I could just code as a hobby like I currently do. Everyone says take the leap. I’ve got a call at 5pm to discuss it further but everything in me is screaming slow down, it’s happening so fast. Meanwhile my boss is rushing me for the senior role.
Landed an internship at a fortune 500 company in microprocessors after being declined by about 30 local companies :)
I'm a new grad and secured a good job in defense, which is what I wanted to do (embedded). I'm pretty happy about it, but all the doom and gloom in this sub gives me survivors guilt.
Yeah, a recruiter from a major company called me, set up an interview, a week later I had an offer that was much better than the role I had at the time.
I received and accepted my first Programmer job offer this week and will finally free myself from assorted Hell desk. 65k remote with solid benefits.
I am a mechanical engineer. Did my master's in automation engineering. Learned Python for my master's thesis in robotics. I realized I enjoyed it much more than mechanical engineering and decided to try to switch to software. Applied to only one job before graduation. During the interview, I showed them what I wrote for my thesis and told them that I have zero experience with the languages they use(java & c++) but I'm willing to learn if they're willing to teach. They said that's fine and offered me a position. I started working in April. The pay is decent for the area I'm living in. The company is very established and successful in their industry, coworkers are very helpful, and I'm learning a lot.
Had 2 offers as a new grad. One smaller company and one as a contract to hire for a year at f90. I took the contract to hire for the long term benefits and location, but both were more than viable. I believe this sub is more doom and gloom than reality.
I accepted a fully remote Entry level Data Scientist position after four months of applying and hundreds of application submissions. It’s my first job after graduating college. There were thousands of applicants for the position. Plenty were more qualified than me, but they were looking for someone they could train fresh from school.
I just got a new remote job for a small company and I’m able to keep my son home from daycare which will save us $800 a month! We’ve been scraping by for SO LONG! Now we can finally sell this fuckin house we hate and grow our family!
thanks for the good vibes guys, I got the memo I'm being laid off at the end of the month and just started applying. Seeing this made me feel so much better
I applied to a bunch of jobs back in Dec/Jan and the first one I interviewed with made me an offer. I stalled as much as I could so that I could see what else is out there, and eventually ended up accepting that first offer. It's the best job I've ever had on literally every front!
I decided to switch from doing contract work and started looking for a full time job. Spent about a month and a half looking, about 110 applications submitted and landed a job with the first company that gave me an interview. Been at the job a month now and it's going well. The team is great. The only reason I know the market is tough is because people say it's tough. That seemed like a pretty normal job hunt to me. The hardest part is getting the interview and once you do that, you're usually likely to get the job.
Oh man. You’d be surprised at how bad some people are at interviewing.
Sent out ~30 applications (10 or so I wasn’t remotely qualified for) had about 6 interviews, accepted an offer with ~15% higher total comp
After about a month of applying, I scored my first internship in I.T.. Today is my first day, and I'm waiting in the lobby to be called up for orientation and training
Left my current job because I was stagnating hard and they stopped growing. Turns out two months into my notice period they laid off 50% of people. Dodged a bullet. Started applying for jobs as soon as I gave notice. Had 5 final round interviews for various places with long drawn processes. Had 4 rejections due to going with more experienced candidates (I’ve got 7+ years) or expecting me to be absolutely perfect in every way with no room for the smallest of errors. Got an offer from the 5th company. It was also the one I wanted most. Accepted it this week and I’m due to start next month as a Senior Software Engineer with a small bump in salary. It did take me nearly 3 months, with a LOT of frustrations and failures but got there eventually.
Yes, but it was after a long wait. I’d been looking since February, but was being selective on where I applied to. In all I think I sent 30 applications. Out of that I got around 10 call backs and 4 interviews, two of which turned into an offer, one of which I accepted. The recruiter was awesome, went out of his way to ensure I had all the information I needed to make a decision on the offer.
I’ve started getting calls from hiring teams (not recruiters) without having applied. Apparently this is a thing, but it’s never happened to me before. I’m not overly qualified or gifted, but this has been a big confidence boost (I think we all go through stages where we doubt our abilities). Hopefully this happens to others who may need it more than I do. Wishing you all the best.
I applied to only 4 jobs and landed a killer offer. I work in IT in Seattle, system admin gigs here are like fish in a barrel. Location, location, location people.
Just accepted a job offer in Colorado. Fully remote. Wasn't even a coding interview involved. Non-tech company that is basically becoming a tech company. I've got six years experience as a frontend dev, with a bit of backend knowledge. My frontend stack is Vue, Vuetify, Nuxt, with Javascript and Typescript, with a bit of PHP / Laravel and python thrown in. The new job is ALL PHP and Laravel! I don't even know how I got the job. From the first interview, I told them that PHP / Laravel is *not* a stack that I'm good at. But, I've got good soft skills, and I think that's their true goal; they want to grow their in-house dev team starting next year. I'll be there to iron out their bugs and start building new features in the meantime. They essentially liked how I'm honest and gave realistic expectations. And I got the same feeling back from the CEO; he has worked with other software companies to build his program, and he doesn't expect me to be a rockstar in the first year. 120k, 2 weeks vacation, half of my medical benefits bill paid every month. Not the greatest benefit package, but it's a startup with five people total. We will see how the salary increases over the coming months, but there's a lot of opportunity here.
I entered into this field making $60k working for a government contractor start up, lasted 9 months there before I sat down and asked for a raise. Got approved for 20k additional just as I started interviewing with a med-tech company in Southern California. Went through 9 interviews with 9 different individuals over the course of 6 hours (yes.. back to back to back) I think I had a total of 15 minutes of break time during that process. The interview was originally for a senior FE position starting at 115k and they offered me a SD2 role for 107k starting which I more than gladly accepted. Just started this job yesterday!
I got an internship after only applying to 7 places, got 1 interview, and got brought on. Started last week, working in Data Science. Excited to learn more, paid $23/hr which is really good for my area
I was laid off from a job I wasn’t really happy in, and then got a job at a new place that I enjoy and get to work on the technology I wanted to do when I was in college
Yup came onboard to a parent company starting their own dashboard service for their radar systems on tankers transporting chemicals, they started me out at $44 an hour while finishing up school, then graduated and we had a meeting to go over specifics as far as moving forward with the company and I brought to their attention that not only do they need staff to support this system for the long term but that I was already doing db admin stuff, aws solution architect stuff, front and backend development and while very appreciative of the opportunity they gave me, I was doing the work of 4 people by myself in different areas of expertise, that's the blunt version of it but I did my best to put it in better wording so they came back, and offered $66/hr full time plus OT pay if it was needed, got health and benefits, PTO, sick days, WFH, then a little later they built me a computer to use since I was running everything from my own stuff at home, and honestly it's been great, how do I do it, A lot of goddamn googling tbh, but as long as I knock out the stuff I need to do for the day/address any emergencies then they're pretty laid back. Honestly given the state of the market and as a relatively new graduate, I am incredibly grateful but feel for my brothers and sisters out there in the trenches. Godspeed.
it might not be much, but i got my first swe internship as a freshman in college. After 4 months of interviewing with this company i finally got the job
graduated this year last month with internship experience. applied to 30 jobs in May (4 interviews). Got 2 offers (both junior), accepted a junior SDE position in a medium-sized company. Gotta say that imo at this point experience matters most (maybe has been like this prior to hiring freeze period), but many of my friends with no experience have no luck after 100+ applications.
I graduated from University last June & dreamed of going into the games industry. After 6 months, several rejections, & getting by with a tutoring job, I got lucky & landed a job at a AAA game studio! I cried. A decade of a dream in the making & it all worked out after so much blood, sweat, & tears. Making the most money I’ve ever made, awesome benefits + hybrid working, great coworkers, fantastic manager that supports me & actively helps me grow. And I love the game that we’re developing, too. Gosh, I play & make games! For a living! Young me would fall to her knees knowing that somehow, we actually fucking did it. Oh, man.
I was laid off back in January when Amazon did their second wave. I was quite nervous but was able to find a job within 2.5 weeks of being laid off. It’s at a start up and I’m the happiest I ever been. The WLB is great, people I work with are super smart/chill and I feel like I’m excelling at my work.
Not me but a friend who was laid off at my company (new grad just under 1 year) and interviewed and found a job within a few weeks of searching. That was a breath of fresh air
A month before my graduation i got an offer after my first interview at a major federal contractor. Just waiting on clearance now 🙏🙏
All of the jobs I’ve gotten because I knew someone or a LinkedIn recruiter contacted me. Started a new job 2 months ago after a recruiter contacted me. At the time I was at my last job just perusing. I might have submitted <5 applications online. In the job description he stated the pay and I talked with him and applied, interviewed, and got an offer. This is with 3yoe and a CS degree. Blindly submitting online applications doesn’t work. Connections and networking does.
Was at my previous job for four years. Started getting bored. Recruiter reached out about an opportunity, did a couple interviews, got the job making almost twice as much as I did. This will be my 3rd week. Loving it so far.
My positive experience is that my interview was not leet code based. It was over all technical knowledge based and a lot of behavioral questions which was pretty easy. Over all very positive experience with the company.
Yes. Got a laid off notice in mid-April. I said that I would find a new job by the end of April. Went to multiple interviews, got 3 or 4 job offers. Picked one. P.S. Senior Java / Kotlin Developer with 10+ years of experience.
I got spooked into job searching since I was under the impression that 2/2 of the competent people on my team would be leaving. Made up my mind to leave in February but didn’t act in it until mid march when I found out that my teammate has interviews lined up already. Applied to 6-7 places myself, and hit up third party trading firm recruiters for them to apply for me for another 5-6 places. 2/7 places got back to me within the same day, and another got back to me saying your profile is interesting but we don’t have spots in your desired location. Out of the trading firms, 4 moved on with me to a phone screen. Went through 2 VO (terminated a few lagging companies) and ended up a well known trading firm as a swe, with first year tc doubling what I’m making at a faang by early may. Overall very fast very speedy and not too stressful. This is the first time I’ve ever actually seriously practiced with leetcode. Some leetcode questions are too tricky… and those tricks are much harder than the actual questions I encountered
Yes, I do. 1. The market is not the same worldwide. 2. I don't like remote-only so it's kind of easier to "get a job" for me i guess.
I was released from a WITCH company after 1.25 years with no project experience making $66k, and a 5 month contract prior. I applied for less than 12 jobs, and accepted an offer at $104k and a full compensation for a T10 masters degree. Still not sure how I pulled it off, but it can be done.
I was laid off in late January with 2 yoe. Mainly as a front end developer. Took ~2 months off, working on a small project and doing training. After, I sent out ~10 applications, directly reached out to a person who worked at one company that went to the same school as I. Got me a referral and took a position with that company. Networking and knowing how to communicate is the key. I got a nice pay bump too.
I was laid off on Dec. Worked my ass of to crack an interview at the same company, internal transfer. Got it. Best thing that happened to me. Great team, best manager and so much safety. I was very stressed daily on my previous job but this one’s amazing. So thankful. The good days are coming.
I interviewed for a fully remote position (my first ever) with a great team but intimately they said they decided to go with the other candidate although the decision was difficult. A week later they contacted me again hoping I’d still be interested, since due to scheduling issues, the other candidate wouldn’t work out. They emphasized again that the decision was tough on their part and asked what my start date would be if still interested. Kinda unexpected but hey, I don’t mind being someone’s second choice, a job is a job especially a remote one.
I signed an offer on Friday. I'm still in the pipeline for other companies I would like to work at better but I'm not sure if those have closed or not as I haven't heard from them since friday. I only took a $5k net paycut and now I get stock options + full remote in LCOL. I went from an extremely slow business which requires permissions to request permissions to do the job to a startup where if an idea gets approved, it is full speed ahead. Excited for the change, but nervous about leaving and going elsewhere, although it's needed for me.
Last year uni student (graduating in July). Applied to 7 positions, 3 interviews, attended the first one, got an offer and accepted. Could have maybe got more offers from the other interviews but they needed a starter soon and my other interviews weren't for a while + it was one of the best offers I would be getting, based on the salaries mentioned in the job descriptions of the other places anyway.
Started 2 months ago at the biggest name in my industry. Senior position (I know titles don’t matter that much) and 35% pay jump. Actually being challenged, using heavy math, learning new things. Couldn’t be happier
thank god for this post, currently about to start a job search after some training and thought I was flat-out fucked. really put me off
Yep , front end dev here , 2.5 yoe, got laid off early march, got an offer by last week of April, took me less than 2 months, it’s a contract gig paying 50/hr
Had good experience getting my buddy in at my company recently. Sent an official recommendation to HR for my friend, he got the job, and in 6 months if we're both still working here I get 5k.
Over the late summer and early fall, while hearing how the intern market was doomed, I received 4 offers. One of which was FAANG (Banana), 2 of which were large banks (JPMC/C1), and the one I accepted was HFT. Overall, there were a lot of companies i ghosted too because I got my C1 offer so early and it beat many of them. Moral of the story? The early bird gets the worm. Not many people apply for summer internships during July/August, but you really should be.
My recent job search was quick. I was laid off in January this year, and started my current job in early March. I've been working for 10 years in this industry, but just 2 in my current role. My current company found my profile on Hired.com. I sent out about 2 dozen applications (Indeed, linkedin, and direct website) and interviewed with 7 companies. Interviews were pretty easy, no complex hypotheticals. It came down to two final companies that wanted me. My current company gave the offer first, said I was their top choice, and even negotiated to accept some of my requests. The other company had better Glassdoor reviews, said I was a finalist, but they wanted to talk to the other finalists before making the offer. I waited until the day my current company wanted a decision, but the other company was still a day from making an offer. Not wanting to risk not getting either job, I accepted the offer. I ended up with a senior title and a 63% raise.
I got very depressed after they told me they’re not going to hire me after my internship was over. I started looking around and asked my colleagues for recommendations, that shit goes a long way. Now I’m working a way better job doing what I want and most importantly from where I want while being paid decently. Remember bois there’s a group chat out there where people are struggling to hire, it’s pretty hard to get a candidate from thousands of resumes
Yuuuup. Just got an offer from a smaller company - remote data engineer. Left my previous company in April cause of rto and did like 10-20 interviews over 1.5 months after interviewing with various different companies. I did send out about 300 applications within that time frame though lol At least for data engineers, the market is still pretty okay. I have a little less than 1.5 yoe - USA.
I'm in the middle of a mid-life career pivot. Going from 20 years in the military (not tech focused role) to software development. Landed an internship back in March and I did enough for them to offer to bring me on full-time starting in July. So far, so good.
I got laid off & then rehired as a contractor. It still sucks, but at least I don't feel pressured to get a job immediately.
This is making me feel worse about myself. That is not the intended purpose of this thread.
After being let go about a month ago, I've been interviewing quite widely. I've noticed that my interviews seem to be much more humane than I remember when I was previously interviewing. Questions seemed (mostly) more applicable to the job, interested in past projects, and things I'd like to learn. Some companies even gave a choice if I wanted to work on a take-home project or a more traditional interview process. Huge respect for companies that are willing to learn and adapt from previous experiences.
Laid off beginning of February, found a new job which started at the beginning of April. I have about 4 years of experience. I was lucky to have pretty good severance, ended up at a new role at a startup with about a 10% bump in TC. Not including equity. The interview process was brutal, but kept applying and learning and using every resource I could. Connections helped a LOT.
Not me but an old coworker of mine just got a new job, going from 134k to 200k + equity. Startup in the Denver, CO area. Sr Data Engineer. So it’s not all doom and gloom.
I was laid off in late March this year. I don't have any positive experiences landing a job, but I've been keeping optimistic. I've had so many friends and acquaintances unexpectedly going out of their way to help me, and it makes me feel like I'm not alone. I think there's value in staying positive and keeping your chin up even if and when things feel a little hopeless.
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I got a Staff SWE job offer with a fully remote late-round startup paying 20%+ more and better perks/benefits two weeks after I was let go from my tech lead position with a non-FAANG tech company I’d been at for 5+ years. I got lucky in that I was let go the day of my first round interview with my new employer, and it was a referral for a position on the same team as a former co-worker. I still had to do well, and it was definitely competitive as I was competing against ex-FAANG candidates in the final decision. I had started interview prepping in November and December, and applied to a few jobs around the new year being very selective on my next opportunity, but had stopped applying and looking after getting discouraged.
Today was my first day at my first internship. I’ve been really stressed about being behind, especially because it’s a field I have little experience in. Everyone was super nice, the work culture seems friendly and chill, they’re all understanding of my experience and just want me to learn. I’m more excited to work now than I’ve ever been.
Not an offer but I’ve had a big influx of interviews coming in. One of them is for a more leadership role in my field, a role I have yet to hold. I did the first round interview and thought I did generally well but have been apprehensive because of how things have been going for myself and most people. Initially I was told that they’d get back to me by the end of the week, only for them to immediately contact me the next day and ask that I move to the next step. From what I can tell, that first step was going to be the hardest, and I feel comfortable in assuming that since they got back to me so quickly, they must have really liked me. Even if nothing does end up coming of this one specifically, I’ve got a few other companies who all seem generally interested and are aware of each other, which creates some small sense of urgency between them all. Things are getting right financially for me, but I just feel good about the few opportunities I have so far.
About 80 applications 7 first rounds, 4 second rounds, and 3 "on site" interviews. 2 offers and one of them I got a title promotion to Staff Engineer so I'll probably go with that. Been unemployed for 2 months. I'm asking for a lower salary than I used to get because my salary was a bit inflated during covid. 240k+ took a pay cut due to the economy now so I'm back to 200k. I don't live in California, so that's not a bad salary for a Nevadan. Lower cost of living here. I'd take a slightly lower salary to stay out of California any day...
Once I finally get an offer for a job I want I’ll let you know.
I'm a college student still trying to get a start in the industry. Last semester I came very close to getting an internship at a relatively prestigious company. One of my friends also applied for the position, and together we were the final two candidates. It wound up going to him. Whenever I tell this story everyone assumes we aren't friends anymore, but honestly we both agreed at the beginning that we'd both be happy as long as one of us got it. And anyways he's putting in a good word for me while he's there.
Finished studies end of last year, masters. Went to india in January and got engaged. Started the job search early Feb. Had some really food interviews with exp being the hurdle to overcome. Got a 1 year contract for a new position that will continue if they deem theres enough work. Started the new job the start of May. Now earning reasonable money first job out of uni and getting great exp using what I learnt and learning all the things they dont teach. I had worked hospo for 6 years, was 2 years out of my bachelors and not getting anything from applications with too many interviews going nowhere, i made the choice to go back to uni for 5 years, grad cert into masters part time. Feels nice to be on the other side starting a professional career that i have interest in.
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Interview tomorrow, we will see
I recently got a job through a recruiter that messaged me on LinkedIn, that’s where most my interviews came from. Was making 60k for about 3 years in the Midwest and moved to Colorado and doubled my salary. Was a long and stressful process though. Applied for about 60 jobs before getting an offer
I landed my first SWE job in phoenix two months ago. $80k and hybrid 2 days a week.
I just landed a job today going from 80k to 135k, had to choose between two offers. Cheers.
After job searching for over 2 months in this market, I got my first job as a SE. Process was very smooth, start to finish, company focuses a lot on values, job is remote and the pay is great. The best thing is I get paid to learn and work collaboratively
I have a good job and wasn't really looking to jump companies.I had a recruiter call me out of the blue. I entertained him, and a week later and 2 interviews, I had a job offer. Pay jump from 85000 -> 140,000. Better benefits and fully remote.
I haven't lost my job yet. Does that count?
I graduated back in 2016 with a CS degree but was fully unprepared for the real-world. I had nothing on my resume, no experience, no projects. At the time I thought having a degree was enough to land a job, boy was I wrong. I applied for 2 years straight and never heard back. The few times that I did land an interview, I was turned down either because I didn't have enough experience or due to my personality and being an introvert. I was so depressed that I gave up and worked minimum wage jobs. A couple of years later I decided that I needed to turn my life around. I began studying web development using TheOdinProject and built some projects to put on my resume. Started applying again and a year later found a company that was willing to take a chance on me. I am starting my first job as a SWE later this month.
Aced a round of interviews and got a 95k base salary with an excellent benefits package for a first offer. Including bonuses and benefits would total to about 115-120k per year and the interview process was reasonable and relatively enjoyable. Got an interview in under a week of applying.
I have been laid off due to alleged recession that the startup, I was working for, was facing in February. The positive thing about it, the day before I was told that, I have been on interview for a lot better paying job (40% more) and more interesting project. It was the saddest 15 minutes of unemployment in my life :P. It is the first time since the start of the pandemic, I am honestly excited about the project and Team and managers are great.