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/icecreamangel Nov 21 '24
Very similar situation. I am not sure either, I haven't had a lot of luck applying to front-end only roles, junior or mid-level. It was a mistake not fighting to do more backend work at my previous jobs, but also maybe the market just sucks for everyone.