I uploaded my resume last night for the first time in years and had a few voicemails this morning. My advice is to use this time to sharpen your interviewing skills.
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It’s not difficult to get a call. Landing a job is difficult.
Yuk why would anyone work for Meta 🤮
I was LRed last year, multiple Certifications and CCIE, Principal Architect Grade 12, and still looking for a proper job. Companies are publicizing job openings to test what kind of candidates come through, even interviewing, but most are waiting on budgets approvals, and getting funds secured. Personally I feel Cisco and most employees expect a recession in next twelve months and are holding from any additional head counts adds. Best strategy would be to hunker down, relax and take some break and vacation, while enjoying LR severance money that should last through many months into the next year. You worked hard to save so treat your layoff as a company paid sabbatical time off. Things should be fine in long run unless one is in dire state for finances. Explore other career opportunities and alternate options that you thought of or explored while employed at Cisco. Everyone finds a job that you end up hating so take time for next step in your career.
I got one robotic call from a Meta recruiter. After getting 20 odd linked-in pings I responded by selecting a time slot. Got called and I didn’t pick the phone but messaged back that I am busy. Got a reply re-schedule. I re-scheduled and again got a call back.
First question why are you looking for a change. I immediately realized it was AI bot that was periodically pinging me.
After the call I was told to practice coding on some site that I could not quite understood and send next available time slot for first round of interview. Don’t remember but was told several rounds.
I didn’t reply. Recruiter/bot is silent for now.
AWS recruiters are definitely following up to make things move faster.
Can you let us know where you uploaded your resume ?
It won’t be that easy. You’ll see.
Let us know how many of those voicemails actually result in a valid position or interview. I get calls. I get interviews. Then they say, "we're waiting on funding for this position that should be coming any day"