I thought that it would take me much less time to find a new job. It seems that the dynamics of the industry have turned upside down more than I could have guessed. I am interested in your experiences with looking for new opportunities.
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Honestly leaving google was one of my biggest mistakes so far. So I’m in the camp of trying to stay there and find a transfer before leaving. If I could go back in time I’d do this, but the pandemic had me thinking irrationally.
I misfired on my exit from google and am now at a dead end job at a 3rd tier tech company that’s going through layoffs that I likely won’t survive, which will be my 2nd company in less than 2.5 years. not a good look. I’m actually trying to get back in to google now but despite my performance there can’t even get a recruiter callback. Hiring freezes haven’t helped.
In my experience (sales) you’ll need to take a paycut when leaving google and you definitely won’t be managing a team unless you have direct experience doing so at Google, or lie about it (which some folks do, they stretch the truth that is).
A lot of smaller firms won’t even talk with sales Googlers because they can’t pay us enough or they've had bad experiences with Googlers not adjusting well to culture outside of Google. Or they just have a bias against people from big companies (a mistake that I failed to see in the interview process but was oddly hired anyways). So, as much as you think Google has a good rep there’s tons of bias in the small to medium tech firm world.
Use your network in both finding a job, getting intel, and onboarding to a new company. I went to a company with no Googlers nor my network there, so I couldn’t get an inside track of how things actually got done, politics etc… and this was a risk that backfired on me.
Hope this helps, but stay put if you can. The next 18 months are not going to be fun…
Economic sins of the past 12 years are about to be paid in full.
It's going to be brutal for many companies that don't even turn a profit and the few that do may not anymore.