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He's right about it being harder to get a job while unemployed. You finish your gap year and then spend another 6 months trying to get hired. Maybe if you lived
by 0xbadcafebee 5y ago
He's right about it being harder to get a job while unemployed. You finish your gap year and then spend another 6 months trying to get hired. Maybe if you lived in SF it'd be easier.
- sthu11182 5y agoKey thing, when you quit, don't burn bridges. I took a year off, did some traveling after working at my job for 8 years. At the end of the year, I applied to a few jobs, but my old boss contacted me to rehire me. I went back as if I never left. I am in a different field, so you experience may vary, but if you are in a good team, your old boss is likely to rehire you instead of investing in someone they don't know and have to train.
- sumtechguy 5y agoThere are 200 resumes in this pile. 199 of them need to go for one reason or another. 'no recent experience' is one of those reasons.
- PeterisP 5y agoMy experience with tech hiring is getting three decent resumes for 5 open positions, everyone qualified gets an interview and serious consideration. It's not that way for junior people in entry level positions and non-IT staff (there the "200 resumes, no reason to interview most of them" scenario often applies), but if we're talking about e.g. mid-level developers, then every decent manager I know is in a "always be hiring" mode.
- xtqctz 5y agoOld economy jobs in the midwest, sure. I applied to FAANG jobs after a year off and no one even brought it up.
- astrange 5y agoI don't care about this at all, I'd assume you still remember how to do things after a year (or even two.) Of course before it gets to the team it might be filtered elsewhere.
- coryrc 5y agoIt was easier for me to get into Google when I had lots of free time for leetcode.