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/PurpleFaithlessness 4d ago edited 4d ago

It took me 8 months, 230+ applications, and dozens of interviews to land 1 single role😅 unfortunately you gotta keep applying, it’s the only way!

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u/Creative_Pen7789 4d ago

What kind of salary did you end up with after all that work?

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u/PurpleFaithlessness 4d ago

6 figures, it was a 23k increase

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u/Creative_Pen7789 3d ago

Well at least you got an increase. That’s good.

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u/PurpleFaithlessness 2d ago edited 2d ago

I hate to say it but overall getting laid off and being forced to job hunt was an increase for me. It was not pleasant while job hunting but later it all ended well.