I wish that colleagues who were laid off have already started getting new offers, but unfortunately, I think many of them will have to wait a long time to get a new opportunity. Those with whom I am still in contact are quite desperate on the job market. Unfortunately.
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@FamousCoward, haha, love the handle! Guys, a buddy of mine just took a remote devops-ish job based in Norway, ferchrissakes. He has to get up at ungodly hours to do a few meetings, but otherwise he rules his own work and gets most afternoons off. Nothing wrong with that! My point being that the opportunities are out there, skills are skills (no matter where you worked previously), and you just gotta broaden your horizons.
I have indeed been in the hiring seat and have always looked for two things - ability to think and ability to work well with others. If you have that, I don't care what's on your resume.
Just my $0.02...
Then, Mister Director Man, that probably says more about you and your organization than about the quality of the applicants.
That was the other point I was making.
To the people who think that Twitter on a resume would look bad, how much tech hiring have you done over the years?
I'm a director and would never, ever hire anyone with twitter on their resume.
Anonymous Coward is my hero!
Great advice.
To the people who think that Twitter on a resume would look bad, how much tech hiring have you done over the years? I've done a ton. Twitter and other SV companies were well known for skimming the cream of the applicant pool with high $$$$ offers and the "prestige" of a household tech name. There's a lot of talent in the wind and smart recruiters with open positions are going to pursue them.
Of course if you've got the sort of toxic culture Leon creates everywhere he goes or you want to exploit people with long hours and unreasonable ever changing demands then maybe people who've already "noped out" of that are not for you.
My general rule of job-hunting is that above US$80K or so, it takes 1 month job hunting for every $10K of salary. So, expect not to find another $100K job for 10 months. Worse during a downturn, of course. And you may always luck out by having a specific skill (high level AI-development) needed by a specific company. So, in the tech industry, you should always have about a year's salary socked away, at the very least 1/2 year. Anyone who is already "desperate" never prepared for the inevitable bumps of the tech industry and should start looking elsewhere.
All that being said, the old cliche is true: Whenever a door closes, another one opens. Positive attitude is key. Treat looking for a job as your "new job", and be good to yourself. Patient, positive, open to change. You'll be OK.
I wouldn't think that Twitter on a resume would be a plus these days.
I run a midsized PaaS company in austin, and have received probably about a dozen inquiries from former twitter project managers looking for work (and a few from meta as well). we don't even bother responding.