I'm in a holding patter at my current job that I was lucky to get right after the layoffs. Just wondering if people are having luck out there getting interviews / offers etc.
I’m very close to giving up. I am now on unemployment and living with a friend m. Luckily my lease ran up earlier this year so it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.
In the last month, I’ve had:
- A call with a recruiter for a company I applied to. The position seemed like a very good fit given my past experience and what they were looking for. Got an email a week later saying they’d gone with someone else.
- A call with a third party recruiter. Went well initially, but the higher ups didn’t like that I’d been out of work for so long.
- A job offer, but with so much bureaucracy and red tape I don’t even have a start date yet. And there’s a good chance I won’t be able to hold down the job for very long anyway. I suspect this offer was somewhat of a nepo hire anyway. I was referred by a family member, and despite having an awkward interview, and admittedly not having much experience with their tech stack, I got an offer. I will have to move though to an area that doesn’t appeal to me and ruins all my medium and long term plans.
- Various ATS rejections. Including getting rejected from a company I worked for pre Covid, which I had no issues getting in via cold app some years ago.
Long term I need to get out of software, but there doesn’t seem to be a good path to something else.
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I remember getting phone interviews within a week after applying but now its totally different.
In the last month, I’ve had:
- A call with a recruiter for a company I applied to. The position seemed like a very good fit given my past experience and what they were looking for. Got an email a week later saying they’d gone with someone else.
- A call with a third party recruiter. Went well initially, but the higher ups didn’t like that I’d been out of work for so long.
- A job offer, but with so much bureaucracy and red tape I don’t even have a start date yet. And there’s a good chance I won’t be able to hold down the job for very long anyway. I suspect this offer was somewhat of a nepo hire anyway. I was referred by a family member, and despite having an awkward interview, and admittedly not having much experience with their tech stack, I got an offer. I will have to move though to an area that doesn’t appeal to me and ruins all my medium and long term plans.
- Various ATS rejections. Including getting rejected from a company I worked for pre Covid, which I had no issues getting in via cold app some years ago.
Long term I need to get out of software, but there doesn’t seem to be a good path to something else.