I'm trying to gauge whether the job market is improving - it seems to me that it is. If you've been affected by a layoff, how is your job search coming along? What are your feelings about it?
If it's improving, it sure isn't including me. It's been 14 months since getting laid off and all I'm getting are rejection e-mails, scams that say I got a position without any interviews, and recruiters who call/e-mail me ranting about how I "wasted [their] time if [I] wasn't qualified". Trying to get hired via referrals went nowhere because everywhere was doing layoffs. Several interviewers have told me post-interview that apparently side projects aren't counting anymore but the years of work experience do. Sorry I graduated with my bachelors' in back in '19.
Late response, but in Q1 I got about 3 call backs, 2 turned into a full "onsite" loop, but both seem to have ended from things I couldn't control (position closed because startup's product launch got pushed back by almost a year; layoffs/weird decisions around monetization announced a month or two later.)
Q2 I feel like my resume response rate is better, and I've had 4-5 "onsite" loops, which got me 1 reject and 3 (all in June) where I'm waiting for a response.
5 years of experience at no name startups in data science/mle, hard req for fully remote positions, visibly part of a controversial minority.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 19.7 ms ] threadQ2 I feel like my resume response rate is better, and I've had 4-5 "onsite" loops, which got me 1 reject and 3 (all in June) where I'm waiting for a response.
5 years of experience at no name startups in data science/mle, hard req for fully remote positions, visibly part of a controversial minority.