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Hey! Any Google folks know if it’s possible to negotiate fully remote if a contract role is hybrid? Personally, I don’t want to relocate and go to the office on a contract role given the current economy. Plus, I’m assuming contractors are the first to go in layoffs. I just think it’s a fair trade off if I’d be allowed to work fully remote. I’m also trying to have flexibility to manage my Airbnb business in a different country. Same time zone as the home office if I’d travel weeks at a time.
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Looking for a role as junior software engineer.
Hello Everyone,
- I am looking for a part-time/full-time role as a software engineer. I have Bachelor in computer science.
Pros: Self learner.
Cons: Take too much Tea.
Comfortable:
- Typescript/Nodejs
- Reactjs, tailwindCSS
- GraphQL
Intro and done some work in following technologies also:
- WebRTC
- Django
- Android, Flutter
- Solidity, Truffle
Regards Muhammad Ahsan.
Email: ahsanjsdev@gmail.com
Salary expectations: 15$/h
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It took me 5 weeks. Good luck buddy. Just do your best. Don’t base what gonna happen with you off of others failures or successes.
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Thanks for sharing!
7 months. Just started the new one on Thursday. Don't give up, and keep mass applying! You can do this.
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9 months, although I didn't put much effort in the first 1-2 months as a break was needed. Many hours spent in LinkedIn with nothing to show for it. In the end, it was through connections and contacts that I found my job.
2 years
Was laid off in April and about to start my new position late July, applied for over 60 roles and only 4 interviews
I am still on my job hunt. 11 months in
Does everyone tailor their resume to the jobs they applied? or the folks who now got hired, did you tailor your resume?
Laid off 2 years ago and took about 6 months to get new job but now laid off again. 3 months in with no leads yet, feels harder then last time this time round. I was consistently getting interviews 2 years ago but now just ghosted. Very discouraging that the job hunting is taking longer and the period of employment is becoming shorter before getting laid off again.
Laid off in April, spent a month on lawyers fighting for severance. took the first offer after about four months of applications. infinitely better com, but half the money
Started job hunting in March, made redundant in July (was anticipating it might be a risk and I was right) timing was immaculate - received an offer 2 days after redundancy was confirmed 👌🏻 and a second offer the following week. Those job-hunting months - though not long - felt hellish. Getting in the line-up at all, and then being turned down for some pretty tenuous reasons that felt like thinly veiled ageism and sexism. It’s tough out there, I’m rooting for everyone in the same situation
I was out of work for 19 months, but found a job 3 weeks ago. I had to use my previous experience as a manufacturing engineer to land a job, my software and Salesforce experience was getting me no where.
Almost 2 years now, i am still searching for a position related to my experience as telecommunication engineer (4 years), i also search for a position in my study field, or in networks in general, there are obstacles, but i still get some responses and interviews from time to time, i would say in every 10 applications i get one response, but the competition is fierce out there.
I was laid off mid-2024. About 14 months later, I worked on a contract that ran out of budget after 7 months. I'm about 4 months into my second round of hunting. Pretty sure there is no "finish" anymore.
I was laid off two years ago in March 2024 and I am still looking.
Laid off in Jan 2025, started actively looking and applying by May 2025. Have still been looking since then til now. Have gotten a fair amount of interviews but no offer yet.
Month 7. Receiving rejection letters feels like a win at this point. Im ghosted mostly.
it took me about a month… I sprayed my resume out to all the usual resume farms like Monster, Indeed, cleared. connections, etc. I updated LinkedIn with all my latest projects. I applied to jobs at the rate of 30-40 per day using tailored cover letters and tailored resumes. I phone interviewed with 5 potential companies. I went back to the fourth one and signed the job offer in on week.
It’s been almost 5 months for me. I feel like I’ve tried everything except going for entry level jobs. It feels like it’s not a good idea and I should keep trying to find something that interests me and matches my recent experience but part of me feels it’s a waste of time and I should just get a tech support job to start again and gain domain expertise perhaps in a very different industry.
I was laid off last summer and am still actively looking for a job in tech. I have about 400+ applications, have had maybe a handful of interviews, and I had to take a part time job at a grocery store to pay my bills once my unemployment ran out. I have written dozens of cover letters tailored to each job, and my resume changes multiple times a day. It's hard out here, but keep pushing.
5 months of active search. Had to take a 5% pay cut to get where I am at with more work.
I was let go at the end of February and started my new job on June 15th so just under 4 months. Fortunately my new role is very similar to my last but did require relocating as it is hybrid whereas my last role was fully remote.
it took me 5 months to find a new one.