If you aren't technical, with a computer science degree, 5-10 years of coding and just want to be a do nothing "manager" you're SOL because those are the mandatory requirements now on most postings.
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I secured an internal role this week. I had a good network though.
@aa Truth. When I was LR'd in 2019 & told impacted employees would get high priority for company job openings, I did not find that to be the case. Recruiters were slow to respond if they did at all.
@a4 you are an a55hole. What about the grammar here?
Only if you know a VP willing to hire you, otherwise its impossible.
No luck so far. But I expanded my search to include External roles (I thought we were on a hiring freeze?) and found more roles that way.
I have a feeling the "We prioritize those impaced" is bs. They chose to sla-ghter us for a reason.
Most are fake job postings. This keeps CR on records that 70% find internal jobs. Not true.
You don’t layoffs employees for no reasons. It’s not an internal job move. Wake up.
@a9 every single position I got in Cisco I got a rejection email, then the next day an interview. Not sure how that works.
The challenge is that they are not even limiting internal roles to internal only but opening it to external applicants. Several years ago, they at least limited new reqs to be internal only to give
impacted employees a shot at staying with Cisco.
Who would you hire as manager, a long time Cisconian or a highly skilled laid off Metaman?
Nobrainer.
They say that they prioritize those impacted for placement. Spoiler : it is not true. Good luck out there.
I applied for a couple of open positions. One of them I was rejected for right away. No response yet on the second.
Well, if your grammar is anything like that when you reach out to hiring managers, don’t hold your breath.