Customer Service

Not surprised. Happened to me also in a previous job and many of my peer seniors incl directors and managers who I thought had a lot of clout and connections.

Problem with a very long tenure is people take a while to get into interview mindset, figure out what the industry uses vs internal tooling etc.

Investor

Same with Google as well 
  
 Some really tenured folks fired. It must shake up your entire life beliefs. 
  
 Really sad stuff.

Corporate Strategist

In career - best to always stay relatively young

UX/UI designer

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16 years in same company and then you’re laid off

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16 years in same company and then you’re laid off- Grapevine

I graduated in 22 and it’s been a year since I joined my first company. Considering the current market situation, switching the company doesn’t seem to be an easy task. I got the opportunities to work on 5 projects in this company and unarguably learned a lot. But now they have put me in the support project saying that they don’t have projects. Wouldn’t lie they laid off approx 1k employees, I and few others are the only saved ones. Would it be a good idea if I stay in this company for one more year while slowly preparing for the switch utilising the amount of time I’d get being in this support project or rush myself to change the company?

How long should a fresher stay in the first company?

Software Developer

I used to work in a start up in Bangalore, they overhired in 2022 and overpaid the freshers, more than the experienced engineers were getting paid.
To fix this put 30% of workforce on pip, laid off 20% I was one of them. 2 months later, they did open layoffs, did it again in 2 months, and one of my friends there heard the founders cracking a laugh that even the investors wouldn't have expected us to do this so fast.

I joined another company, they lost the client I was hired for, and few more clients, I was told they will have to do layoffs and my name is in the list. So they asked me to resign and I refused by saying we'll consider a last working day, if I get an offer I'll resign otherwise anyway I'll have to be laid off and they agreed. This happened one month after I had joined this company ( also a startup ).


So, being laid off once was already a big enough punch of reality, with an education loan on my head.
I joined another company and got laid off again. Tough shit.


I ended up getting an offer before my lwd.
I am not from any IIT, I am not an exceptional engineer. I am very bad interviews, my resume usually doesn't get shortlisted.

Sheer volume of effort I put made the impact on me getting a job.
Right now I am the best job of my career, with a better management.


Trying to say, it's a tough time. But you'll get through it.

PIP then laid off, again laid off

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Got hints that I’ll be fired

I presented them with an option of taking a lower level position

The next lower level options top band was 40 percent less than my current pay

I took the demotion given the market and personal circumstances.

 If I search for opportunities outside I would have to ask for 60 percent hike

I guess, my salary is corrected forever 😪

I took a demotion

Software Engineer

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I am hearing that some companies are laying off again? So is this a good time to switch or just stay wherever I am. That being said, I am not happy with my CTC and looking for a hike. And my current CTC is ~26 so how much hike can I expect if I do a switch?

Is this a good time to switch for an SDE with 2.5 YoE

Hi

I have worked in two startups as backend engineer and here I only did the given work and didnt proactively contribute much to the products. I have been given promotion to SDE 2 without any salary hike. I recently got laid off and I feel like I am not eligible for SDE 2 interviews. I can clear dsa rounds but suck in design rounds.  I got a job with same salary at a service based company and I am thinking to join and then prepare to be better at design. is it a good decision? should I join it?

YOE: 3y
TC: 24L

joining another company for no hike after getting laid off

I got layed off 2022 Dec , Consulted at a startup for 3 months , started with a large org with a paycut early 2023 and got promoted within a year of joining.
Not boasting here but just know that bad tines are momentary and good times will happen sooner or later .

Dont get bogged down after getting layed-off

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I (23 grad) working with a service based company, around 5 months exp, got an offer from Swiggy for a contract role. Is it worth joining Swiggy right now amidst all the recession and layoffs chaos?

Swiggy joining

Looking for genuine and non diplomatic answers since it will be anonymous. It is upto you to reveal the name of the company you resigned from.

Lets discuss!!! I will go first -

I quit my last organisation (a famous UPI company) in 2020 because, they still are in old technology. No cloud computing, no kubernates, no terraform. Their entire baremetal infra are in 2 DCs (Mumbai and Bangalore). Leadership ideas are outdated. I was very much bored and looking for a change.

Why did you resign?

DevOps Engineer

So last year March i got laid off. Was there with the company for more than 5 years. Was told they are restructuring the org. I was devastated, though i wanted to move much before, but company did not cut pay or jobs during the peak pandemic, so i thought ill stick around for some more time. Next thing i know boom gone. I have taken a break since then almost did nothing.it's more than a year but anxiety of shitty boss, long hours work is hitting me even harder as i apply for jobs. Don't know how the market is going treat me.

Anxiety of joining work again

Has anybody here experienced a layoff that has kept up your love for the company.

I’ve had a bad one that was done in 30 mins with a meagre severance and assets/accesses removed in 10 mins with a legal binding about a non social media disclosure 

Not mentioning which company for obvious reasons.

What’s the right way to get laid off

With news of layoffs coming every day since the last couple of years i was wondering if there is anyone who has been laid off multiple times in their career 
Share your story here if you would like to .

Getting laid off multiple times.

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I have 17 years experience as head of data science in a startup , I am thinking how to save jobs in this current scenario , I am hearing my friends who are in Swiggy , Zomato in senior vp positions loosing job . How to up skill to become layoff proof or easy to get jobs , data engineering with complete architecture and design data platform knowledge of aws , gcp,azure, data bricks, snowflake , 
Know end to end all major domain bfs , insurance, retail ,e-commerce , manufacturing to generate insights
Know llm architecture , system design , end to end software development , MLOps , web development, data base design 
People management , mentoring, leadership, industry connect , doing part time phd what we should do to be evergreen to get job when layoff happen or save ourselves from layoffs

How to avoid layoff 2024

Data scientist

Folks with 10+ yoe, What are some industry secrets that you can share?

What was your shortest stint at a company? If you wanna share the reasons behind and did it impact your overall resume/career?

Your shortest stint and its impact on your career?

People in my organization recently went through performance appraisal and like every time, the manager does not reveal employees’ rating. This is most likely a scam as the employees are rated and the ratings are recorded in the system but not revealed. Is it how we have in other organizations? Add your comments.

Ratings not revealed during appraisal. A scam?

Software architect

I don't know why everyone is making a big deal out of layoffs. Even the ones who laid off are not that concerned than the ones who comment.

Laid off employees literally get free money upwards of 10 lakhs in many cases of senior developers who are laid off from top tech startups. Companies pay severance equal to 3-6 months salary of laid off employees. Some even offer other benefits as well.

I personally know a couple of Devs who got around ~9-10L in severance pay. So, yeah if there are layoffs happening in funded tech startups or leading tech companies, considering their pay range, laid off employees get handsome severance pay including employee benefits

Layoffs a big deal? Positive side of layoffs

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Learnings from layoffs

Lawyer

Everyone is jumping for higher salary because they're supposed to - as potentially expenses increases over time over an individual's life cycle. 

I was new to my role , had some experience already, and now 2.5 years later I'm an expert in this role ...and I'm feeling the pressure of "switching" for better pay and learning and growth because otherwise I'm stagnated in this role in this company. 

My CTC right now was once upon a time my aspiration but now it's on the lower average side for my years of experience. 

But wasn't the point of work to find a place where you can work for a long long time and make decent money - I like the role , the bosses , the flexibility etc. But the organization size is small and there genuinely isn't much steep growth path ahead. 

I am ambitious and I would like a bigger role in a different company at some point of time in my life but right now everything is settled here and is fine...except the learning / growth/ salary is now stagnated for the next ~12 months or so. 

I'm confused about staying or switching.

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