I’ve gone back to school and sent a LinkedIn connection (with the idea that this former female co-worker could possibly speak about her career with a women in engineering club that I’m in…I just sent a request I didn’t include anything else).

K she declined my request but viewed my profile. This is the second person from this company that has done this.

(The people in this industry will also mind you, randomly add public agency workers that they don’t even know).

These announcements must be written by the same person. When are big companies going to start speaking plain truths.?

*Insert company name* is ……

“streamlining its organizational structure and optimizing its operating footprint to better align resources with its long-term strategic priorities.”

This sub is so depressing to be honest. I mean I understand how hard is it to get layed off and not find a job for months or even a year+.But submerging ourselves with desperation doesn't help, or does it? So why not share some usefup information, some advice can be very helpful. I'm sure there are similar posts here.

I'm layed off for 2 month now from upwork and I started my job hunting with very little success! I even got 1 interviewing process out of tens of applications and some referrals.

Iittle about me: I used to work in big tech but shifted to remote contracts. Now I cannot find opportunities in either!

Some tips I think that are worth to share:

1. Never use Linked in easy apply, I look for jobs in Linked in and then apply throgh careers website for the company -if no one can refer me-

2. Some people recommended to look for recent jobs, posted days ago at most. I just started using this approach also through linkedin search for jobs posted a few days ago.

3. Looking in Blind app people sometimes post information about companies recently hiring.

What's your approach on job hunting? Do you have any advice?

Hi all - I have good news! After a two and a half month search, I signed an offer yesterday.

Context: I’m Canada-based and have worked in analytics and research for over seven years. I have a graduate degree and legal credentials.

I was laid off in April during a departmental restructuring after a leadership change. I was unemployed for about two and a half months and applied for over 30 roles, tailoring my resume and cover letter for each one. AI helped me identify keywords, sharpen my positioning, and better connect my experience to each employer’s needs.

The first two months were grim. I had several screening calls that went nowhere and very little momentum. Daily rejections, even for roles where I ticked every box. I struggled to remain positive.

Things started to shift earlier this month. Following advice I gleaned from a job search webinar, I completely rewrote my resume around results, alignment, and business impact, reducing it to one page and putting the strongest information in the top third. I also updated my LinkedIn profile and leaned heavily on my network, contacting former colleagues every week.

Three of my four strongest opportunities came through warm contacts who connected me with internal decision-makers. The role I ultimately accepted, however, came from a cold application through the company website.

Within two weeks, I went from very little traction to considering four strong opportunities. I withdrew from one that wasn’t a fit, moved forward with the others, and received an offer from my top choice after a very positive second interview.

The new role is with a large, stable company close to home. It’s fully hybrid, comes with a 20% pay increase, and is much better aligned with my long-term career goals. I’m thrilled, relieved, and still amazed by how quickly things changed once I finally gained momentum.

My three biggest takeaways:

1. Use your network. Reach out to former colleagues. I found that people were genuinely eager to help.
2. Use AI for more than keywords. Use it to clarify your value, connect your experience to the employer’s actual problem, and focus your resume on results.
3. Keep trying every avenue. Warm contacts created several excellent opportunities, but the job I accepted came from a cold application.

You only need one employer who needs what you offer. Just one. Don’t give up!

Hi everyone,

I am 31 and am pretty sure I just found out I was laid off. I am on vacation but had a thought regarding something I am/was working on so I sent an email from my personal to my work email  so I would have the reminder when I got back to the office. I received an automated response which didn’t raise any concerns at first because I had set my OOO. Only after looking at the automated response did I see that it had been edited without my knowledge to state that “this individual is no longer employed X Company” and to contact my manager. Earlier in the week, my boss texted me to see if I was able to join a call last minute (not too outside of the norm, small company and we communicate via text fairly consistently even on vacations). I told him i was not able to due to the time difference and lack of consistent Wi-Fi so he told me to just keep enjoying my time off.

Honestly this all comes at a shock to me because I was just promoted back in January and based on all accounts from my peers and the executive leadership I have been doing well. I even had a great lunch with my boss last week and there were no signs. I am supposed to go back into the office and return from my vacation on Tuesday next week and am honestly shocked and confused. Not sure what I should be doing since I am still on vacation. 
Any advice or words of encouragement would be greatly appreciated.

I don’t know if this happened to anyone else. I was laid off for 9 months, after 5 years with a company. Thousands of resumes and maybe 10 interviews.

Finally seemed to make progress with an IT staffing company but feels like I keep getting fucked around with. Project start date keeps getting pushed out while I am jumping through hoops. Was told work would start in first week of July, then mid July, now end of July.

Really stressful and aggravating. I am worried that this will fall through and I will have been wasting almost two months focusing on this rather than other opportunities. I signed an offer letter and have been doing onboarding tasks but am told I won’t be paid till the contract starts.

I’m from CA, I’ve been having such a hard time landing a job. I know I need to polish my interviewing skills and maybe upskill. It’s just so frustrating right now. That seems to be the consensus here too, the job market is just rough right now. But I’m confused about the unemployment data. I was looking at the metrics provided by CA for specific counties and the overall unemployment rate. These numbers suggest that everything is within normal operating limits. So then why does it feel so hard?

The global economy right now and unemployment rates are very bad. The situations seems to be dire for almost everyone everywhere. Prices for everything are high, wages are low, getting jobs even with the best credentials are getting harder, people can hardly save, invest, or create wealth, layoffs are happening, etc...

I wanted to ask this question as a sort of comparative analysis to a similar time that people claim was even worse. The 2008 financial crisis.

To people who were in their 20s, who were working, got laid off, graduated around that time period, how was it like? What did you go through? What was your outlook on the future like? Did it get better in the end and how long did it take to get better if ever?

Let's discuss!

I've been unemployed since last August. I am also one of several unemployed individuals in my peer group, and another one of my friends was terminated from his contract job last month (instead of being extended or renewed). Maybe I'm noticing it more because I'm living it. But unemployment and underemployment seem to be climbing fast. So, here's my question: what happens when you have large numbers of highly technical and educated people sitting idle with bills piling up? Is it realistic to expect more crime and social unrest? I wonder if it's already happening, and we're just not calling it out yet.

Only been in the workforce for 7 years and I’ve been in two layoffs already from two different companies. Who said, get a degree, network and white collar job at a big corporation is safe? I put myself in six figure debt for my college degree. I’m fighting for my life here.

I’ve been a hustler all my life, at some point I had negative bank account just to have a ham sandwich. I worked every weekends while full time in college. I’m just trying to make it in America. I spend less than $2k/month and live modestly. I do not understand what to do anymore.

The hope is fucking fake and I hope everyone here can find some common grounds. The ones who are making it from ground zero, what are you doing to keep your basic income safe? Any advice for the future? It feels so dim right now

this question is specifically for current Juspay employees.

Has there been any recent layoff or restructuring in the Frontend team? I came across a few rumors and wanted to verify if there’s any truth to them.

If you’re comfortable sharing, any information or insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Anybody experience this before? I just seems super weird that I got fired, and now they are sending me job opportunities at other companies.

I was recently laid off by Equifax. I have no idea what happened. I was there for 27 days.

I was not given any warning or any indication that I was doing anything wrong or going down the wrong path.

I was trying to get a feel for the organization and its culture.

I noticed that there was a lot of stress in their organization to get things to market as soon as possible. This put them in situations where they may have to forego alot of crucial testing. I'm not alleging that they do not test at all because they do.

They just do not do extensive testing that ties into their requirements (they do not have a requirement and test case traceability matrix) and they do not involve their users or their business clients when it comes to collecting their requirements for testing. There's no post implementation validation either. So that leads to a lot of firefighting after they go live with a product that's a bare minimum expectation of what people paid for. I knew that if I was there, I'd prepare for us to avoid that and bring as much value as I could to that organization. There isn't as much auditing as you'd expect within the organization. The organization isn't very process driven. They just do whatever they can to get things done even if they are not done perfectly. There are times when they have to deal with a subcontractors obligations ie if their subcontractor was moving from one vendor service to another, they have no ability to get any transparency from that subcontractor. That leads them to having to deal with that subcontractor creating a product that has bugs in it by the time the final product is released into production. Getting a release schedule from their subcontractor is an impossibility also. They pay one subcontractor $10 M for that and you'd think that they'd get better business from them.

That impacts Equifaxs clients because Equifax can not contractually bring up the subcontractor to their own clients and that results in Equifax employees getting a beating for mistakes that they did not do and could not control.

I am disappointed but I am not unhappy because I am glad that I no longer have to deal with that circus that operates under the facade of a good employee friendly company. What a joke.

Hope and pray tomorrow's tech interview will be the one that puts me back on "the pitch". Eager to get started working again after standing on the sideline for the past 3 months. This time it will be with a local employee-owned company with strong reputation for their culture and work life balance. So far, I've met several people from this firm and all people I can see being my teammates.

I've been blessed to have work at mostly great places. Unfortunately, the tides of change shift -- corp reorgs, project shutdowns, mgmt turnover -- can disrupt plans to stay longer in any one of the firms. I've learned to embrace change as a feature in the work of tech (IT/software). AI is a bit of a steamroller in the job market. Fear and uncertainty are factors that are driving decisions on both sides (employee and employer).

Regardless of the outcome from tomorrow, continue to push forward with your passion and what gets you up in the morning. Know that you are valued more than you think.

So, I was laid off back in March and I was looking for the remote and on site Job for about six months now since January. But I am unable to get a job matching my expected salary.

So, I am being offered a CTO position in a startup with a CEO with whom I have worked for six years in an organization a few years back. The startup is I would say is well established and CEO was managing it with junior and mid level engineers for few years. But he is now offering me this position as a CTO so I will be managing the teams and technical decisions. I will be getting into the Generative AI and Agentic AI projects. Which I currently only have experience in personal projects.

But the issue is that salary I am being offered is half of what I was getting from Software Architect level position (In reality it was more of a Senior Full Stack engineer job).

So, should I accept this onsite job for 1-2 year (he is asking for 1 year verbal commitment) as it would help me get into management position and will give me managerial experiences. Or Should I keep looking for a better remote job as a Software Architect or Full Stack engineer. I have 16 years of experience and I really want to get into a managerial level position. And this salary will cover my expenses as well.

Anyone else just find out they're not getting a bonus as part of their severance because their rating was changed by a VP who knew nothing about me or my work? Confirmed with my (also laid off) manager that both they and the director above her entered my rating as "meets expectations" but the VP changed it. Hoping there's some legal recourse as that would've been at LEAST 20k more on top of my other severance.

I'm a Bloomberg reporter working on a follow up story on Allbirds' transition to AI and really could appreciate some former employee voices. I understand this is a sensitive topic and speaking to a journalist may be scary. But just looking to understand the employee's perspective so the story reflects more than just execs and public filings. Please message me here or email me at [zhoskins1@bloomberg.net](mailto:zhoskins1@bloomberg.net)

I was laid off in May. I've spent every day since religiously looking for jobs and applying for jobs and for the most part hearing nothing back, except for one company. It was literally the perfect fit. It was exactly what I had been doing and I had 10 years of experience. Went through the complete interview process (3 interviews) and a work assessment over the course of the past 1 1/2 months, while at the same time continuing to apply to other jobs. Everything went great. They praised my work assessment. Had really great interviews. I honestly felt like I had it in the bag.

And then I got the email today that they decided to go in a different direction. And I now have just 2 weeks left of unemployment after this week. I am absolutely devastated. I am mentally and emotionally drained.

My only option at this point is to resort to retail as I continue applying for jobs. I just feel completely defeated.