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If you work at Amazon, I'd recommend staying there right now. The jobs market is a nightmare in tech, both for job seekers and hirers. Job postings get quickly flooded with applicants, many of whom are using AI to broaden the numbers of jobs they're applying to, while hirers are using AI systems to try stemming the tide, leaving each individual applicant in a sea of other applicants while hirers have to either remain in a scramble or toss a bunch of applications.
If you've tried using your experiences to generate (and read!) an AI resume for a position before, you'll quickly find out that they tend to embellish to the point of being inaccurate. If an applicant wants the greatest reach, they don't fix this, meaning that that sea of applications? Well, a lot of them are tailored for the position to sound better than you.
What's more, a lot of hirers are using "ghost jobs" (jobs that are posted but aren't actually hiring) in order to front-load a lot of their labor, allowing them to vet applications & accumulate a legitimate hiring pool without the pressure of having to get a hire any time soon. So, you'll submit an application, then if your application is internally accepted, they'll just hold it indefinitely (or might even request an initial interview) for a job that may or may not ever actually happen. And you spent your time working on that application. And the next one, and the next one, and the one after that.
There's a lot more to it, but basically, things are a mess for standard employment at the moment. Your highest chances are with companies where either: you already have connections, or they're hiring for on-site positions in your local area. If you're employed right now, apply for jobs, but don't count on leaving your position until you get all the way to the offer.
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My recommendation is to apply to anything and everything that you can realistically do, this is not a job market where the job seeker can be picky.
As a data point I've got plenty of experience and several top companies on my resume, yet here I sot almost 6 months into unemployment with nothing but submitted applications to remain hopeful that someone reached out on.