r/cscareerquestions • u/aaplh • Nov 21 '24
Laid off after 2.5 years
Not much to say. Grinded my ass off to land my first software engineering job at my company and was laid off today. Typical corporate “restructuring” that led to me getting let go for no good reason. I did get 3 months of severance along with reimbursement for all my unused PTO, etc. at least.
Sucks because I remember posting here about how happy I was that all my leetcoding and resume review paid off and now I’m back to doing all that again. Along with the terrible market I’m already feeling a ton of demoralization to even start the grind all over again.
Any tips for someone like me who still feels inexperienced as hell but should technically be considered mid-levelish at this stage? My job was frontend focused with heavy React/Typescript usage but I’m open to any roles obviously. This was my first and only job out of college so I’m thinking stick to focusing on applying for frontend roles? Could I still apply to new grad/junior positions? Feeling really overwhelmed, any advice would be appreciated!
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u/yinyan10 Nov 21 '24
Don’t just haphazardly start applying to companies. Take a couple days to get the head clear and relax. Then start doing standard questions on leetcode and some machine coding/LLD. Give yourself 3 weeks to get the basic level prep done. Then jump on applying for positions. Main thing is to leverage your network. Any position you feel good because of work or company, leverage your network to get a referral for that position. Connect with your friends, colleagues to get referrals in their company. I assume there will be others too who got laid off. Connect with them. Leverage their network, let them leverage yours. And don’t stress much. Everyone has to someday or the other has to go through this situation. It’s very common now. Take this as an experience and an opportunity to get into someplace better.