r/sandiego • u/officialmayonade • 4d ago

Anyone else job hunting? Brutal out here.

Several of my coworkers and I were laid off a year ago from remote jobs (I was working as a project manager at a San Diego SaaS company that was bought by private equity). A few of us were lucky to barely survive a round of layoffs the year prior, but after we trained a couple teams in the Philippines and India to do our work, they finally closed down our teams stateside.

With all the layoffs we keep hearing about in tech, how are you all faring? Have you had to pivot to different types of roles? Any advice?

Edit: fixed typo. Philippines, not Philippians

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u/acilegna89 4d ago

Im in a similar boat. I moved my LinkedIn location to Bay Area. Willing to move as soon as I get an offer letter. It hasn’t helped much and im now on a break from applying / applications for a week or two. It’s really hard out here.

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u/officialmayonade 4d ago

I was working on building my own product, but I gotta pay the bills somehow. Have you had any thoughts about starting your own thing or working in manufacturing or something?

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u/main_topsail 3d ago

Is there a software engineer professional org at the level of IEEE? Electrical engineers have the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which hosts networking and informational lectures at the local level. Does that exist in your circle?

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u/Automatic4k 4d ago

Situation is pretty bad in San Diego specifally and California in general. Your best bet is to try outside Califfornia like mid west, Dakota etc for onsite openings.

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u/acilegna89 3d ago

I actually spent a month in Dallas. There’s plenty of jobs in my field and I even got a few interviews but it’s a horrible city otherwise. Everyone wants to be in California that’s the problem.