Best Way to Find Engineering Jobs (LAID OFF in 2024)
Best Way to Find Engineering Jobs (LAID OFF in 2024)
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I was laid off from my $240k software engineering job a couple of weeks ago. While the initial shock has passed, it’s now time to get back on track. In this…
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Thanks Cody!
Great video!!
This is valuable thank you. I just got laid off from my first ever job after less than 2 months there due to lack of work, and I'm back on the job hunt now. Unfortunately I just don'r have a network built up that can be great referrals but I'm trying my best to change that. Any advice?
How are you using magic mouse its torture
I have applied to over 200 jobs and I am yet to have a feel of an interview. I couldn't believe how difficult it is to get an engineering job these days until I started applying. At this point I am just looking for an interview opportunity.
Your #1 is also my number one.
Lying on your resume = S tier
So basically old school methods actually work and most of the new technology is just trendy with no substance. How about printing out your resume on linen paper and mailing it in.
cool stuff thank you! Happy new year!
This explains why it's a small % easier for me than my peers. They were going for the easiest most convenient route, I expanded and used as many forms of connections as I can open up. I was opened to any kind of opportunity.
My college mentor told me "If you want to succeed, don't do what you are told. Everyone is following that method. Focus your time on path less traveled. You get less competition and less effort in getting a job. You may have to spend more time and try alot harder but less often to succeed."
I've never understood how people apply for 200 jobs when I cant even find 20 jobs in my field
I've actually seen this on Reddit as well, as people post their post-hiring graphs of what went down and how complicated things were, and holy shit, that hiring phase is abysmal! Essentially, you'll have someone apply to anywhere around 100-300+ jobs, just for 70% of those jobs to sideline you and at the end, if you're lucky, you'll have maybe 2-5 companies email you back about hiring you.
The business seems cutthroat, and I assume it's due to the fact that these businesses are looking for these 10x coders instead of the 2x-3x coders, and then you have the gifted or intellectually superior people who get in easy, as where the average person who is coding for the money or following it as a trend is doomed to fail. Essentially, you have to keep learning new things over and over again, so at that point, if you hate learning or just having to learn something in general, then I assume coding isn't for you.
Then again, life is all about improving and doing things you hate in order to adapt and overcome.
External recruiters should be F tier just due to the sheer lack of professionalism and shady tactics they use, honestly I think they’re CV mining and refuse to deal with external recruiters
You're not wrong but it certainly is the Catch 22 of Programming. I'm sure many saw programming as being great because it worked well for them as an introvert. 6 out of the 7 top ways to find a job require you to network or have an established network which doesn't lend itself to introverted people.
Thanks so much for ur info ;what about startup ?
I’m not sure if I agree completely with your ranking… I’ve had good luck getting interviews by just applying on LinkedIn in the past. And if someone I know, or I worked with before is associated to the company or the hiring manager, I’ll ask them how they like or liked working there and most will also recommend me. But my resume also have some big names, that I think helps getting those interviews. I’ll follow up if I get an offer and accept just to add to which channel I was successful.
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Although referrals are great, they’re not necessarily a viable method for a lot of people. Once your network is exhausted you basically only have the cold methods.
this video is unbelievably underrated
Can you recommend some resources to find subcontractor and contractor work?
Sadly for me, my best referrals are laid off. I do have one manager who has given me glowing referrals to companies but it has not gotten me in the door. I questioned if he was really referring me and got feedback from a recruiter that the manager's recommendation was the strongest he had ever seen. However, the company still did not want to bring me in for an interview. No reason to me was given. ARGH
nobody looking the company website. I am waiting since 2022 for one of the job , still in progress.
If you're still laid off, World of Warcraft The War Within releases in 3 weeks. Azeroth needs you.
There is no best way to get another engineering job. I was laid off in July 2023 and since applying for thousands of full-time and even contract work… it's resulted in applications that never get looked at until this year or just flat out rejected from interviews – even from referrals or ex-colleagues. But eventually it reached a point where my ex-colleagues won't help anymore; as far as I'm concerned I'm dead to them. I used to enjoy electrical engineering… now I just see it as a must and I'm frankly burnt out from it. I renounce my degree and would never return to it…
I'm in a remarkably similar situation to you: my TC was around $245k (base salary + bonus) and my entire department just got cut. They're keeping me and a handful of others around until November because we're needed to transition the products we were working on to other teams. But I'm already starting to look. One question I have for you is whether you'd ever consider taking work that was below the $240k level to make ends meet, or if you simply have never had to worry about that?
I’ve been looking over a year for my first job.
I did a full stack program learned a ton and have been building my own websites and applications for web and mobile as well as practicing leetcode and trying to network.
It’s feeling hopeless
Thanks for sharing this, however the margin of having most of the options in S to B tier is very low, specially for something not development related in IT.
While I don't agree with subcontracting ever being S tier, both being really just A tier, your ranking hints at were the best work and pay is –> The least scalable contacts and contracts. I'm speaking from my own experience of doing specifically subcontracting work for the past 4 years after leaving full-time work, all via decision maker referrals.
S tier would be B2B contracts with you running your own LLC, leads coming in from decision makers, and invoices being based on value rather than hours.
None of what I'm saying will make since until you realize there's a very real ceiling on your negotiating power for prices on projects. You can charge $100/hr on building a website, or $30k. The first makes pushes you towards dragging things out, the second getting done ASAP. Both parties win on the second one.
I’m impressed that you have this understanding about job hunting. It all seems though it comes down to who knows you. Next year assuming I don’t get laid off I would have worked at the same place for 40 years. I’m 67, the next stop will be retirement.