#layoffs
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Posts tagged #layoffs
Month eight: I turned down the 60% offer, started contracting, and here are the full numbers
A few people asked what happened with the 60% offer, so here's the update. The offer The company agreed to a 6-month compensation review, verbally. When the written offer came, the role had been "re-scoped" to mid-level, with a lower title and the same pay. I asked about it twice and got two different explanations. I declined. Several of you told me in that thread to take it, and it was good advice for the offer I…
SEVENTH ROUND AND THEY HIRED INTERNALLY
ok. deep breath. let me write this properly. SDET role at a Pune product company. not my old company, a different one, good reviews, good team. i was so careful with this one. here is the loop: HR screen online test (java + SQL) automation framework design: playwright, API testing, how i'd structure test data, CI integration live DSA, two mediums hiring manager round director "culture fit" round "one final chat with…
I had to tell four people they were laid off. Here is what I would do differently.
Earlier this year our company cut about 12% of engineering. I found out 36 hours before. The list was decided above me. Four of the people on it were mine. I've thought about those four calls almost every week since. Here's what happened, what I'd change, and what I wish every laid-off person knew to ask for. How it went HR gave us a script and 15-minute slots. Access would be cut at the end of each call. I pushed…
what the layoff did to my sleep (and the 5 things that are slowly fixing it)
nobody talks about this part so i will. first three weeks after the layoff: 3 to 4 hours a night. i'd wake up at 4 am and check email for recruiter replies. then linkedin. "excited to announce" posts from people i used to work with. then email again. heart racing every time my phone buzzed, even when it was my mother sending a good morning forward. 4 am, most nights in september. not my laptop. same glow. i'm not…
touch grass weekend thread 🌿
Final round today. The interviewer was on his phone for…
Final round today. The interviewer was on his phone for about 20 of our 45 minutes. I designed a rate limiter for someone reading Slack. I said thank you at the end. I'm not sure who I was thanking. 🙃
got the mail at 9.07 am. laptop locked at 9.15. efficient.
tuesday. 9.07 am. subject line: "an important update about your role". 600 of us got the same email. town hall link at 10. slack deactivated at 9.15. i was in the middle of reviewing a PR. i hope someone merged it. it was a good PR. six years of frontend at a quick commerce unicorn. react, typescript, a design system i built mostly by myself. eight minutes. not our office. ours had more beanbags and fewer windows.…
Take the offer at 60% of my old salary, or keep looking? Honest input wanted.
Context for anyone who hasn't seen my earlier posts: senior backend engineer, laid off in February after nine years at a large tech company. The offer: senior engineer at a mid-size company. Base about 60% of my old base. Equity that rounds to nothing. Hybrid, 3 days a week, 50-minute commute each way. Pending: two other final loops, results expected in 2 to 4 weeks. No guarantees. Runway: severance runs out in…
The H-1B 60-day clock: what I keep in a folder, just in case
First: this is not legal advice. Immigration rules are detailed and every case is different. If you are affected, talk to an immigration attorney. This post is what I've learned from 7 years on H-1B and from helping two colleagues through layoffs. Every few months there's a new headline about fees or rules and our desi group chat explodes. Most of it is noise. What isn't noise is the 60-day grace period, because…
Five months laid off. 431 applications. Here is the actual funnel.
I was laid off in February after nine years at a large tech company. I've kept a spreadsheet since day one, partly because I'm an engineer and partly because counting things is how I stay sane. People keep asking what the market actually looks like for a senior backend engineer right now, so here are the real numbers, February through July. The funnel Cold applications (career pages, job boards): 431. Any human…
tech workers are workers, and yes that includes asking what our cloud sells to militaries
ok so a few people asked after my comment in the sanctions thread what "organizing my workplace" actually means. here's the long version. opinion throughout, sources where i state facts. why i started not because of some big ideological moment. because of on-call. our rotation went from 8 people to 5 after a "restructuring", nobody's comp changed, and the pager didn't care. then the layoffs came by calendar invite…
Offer rescinded 6 days before joining. After I had already served my notice.
This happened three years ago and I still have the email saved in a folder called "never again". I was at a service company. Got an offer from a mid-size SaaS product company, 75% hike, my first product role. I negotiated my 90-day notice down to 60 with a partial buyout, served it, did the handover, had the farewell cake, collected the "all the best" emails. Six days before my joining date, at 7:40 pm, an email:…