There is one new graduate who is about to graduate, and now I have only got two offers. However, I recently heard some news, one of the offers is said to have few clients in my group, so the whole group may be cut.

I want to ask you:

What if I get cut right after I join this group? When does everyone know they’re getting laid off?

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Senior is a Bug repairman?

The company went on a hiring spree, then announced a hiring freeze and just a handful of interviews. A large number of questions were called in to meet the recruiting demand. Now that there’s no need to hire, they let them go right away.

Because I count seniority relatively deep, at that time I still agonized, this next should not look for me to be the interviewer. As it turned out, I overthought it, and the apprentice I had brought with me and another brand was hired as an interviewer, and I continued to work just fine, sometimes fixing other people’s bugs.

Later I heard that the company wanted to replace the seniority with a new person, so as to reduce part of the cost of employment. In addition, I accidentally saw my boss’s calendar once, and I found that there was a department meeting in the second week, but I didn’t receive any notice. At that time, I roughly knew that I was going to be laid off.

1on1 is gone. What do you think

I didn’t have much work to do since I joined the company. I was happy with my leisure and expected to retire in this company. Until one day, I found that I had not communicated with Manager 1ON1 for more than a month, while others in the department still communicated with me once every half month. I felt very bad at that time.

And then everybody got involved in the new project except me, and I knew right then that I was going to get laid off. I immediately started rewriting my resume, thinking it would work seamlessly. A week later, I received the lay off message, but I hadn’t made any progress yet.

Because I was worried that I could not find a job and would be sent back, I felt very depressed that day. The manager even talked to me specially, which showed understanding of my situation. Luckily, they were willing to keep me on for 2 months, including the 60-day Grace Period for H1B, so I had 4 months to find another job.

Fortunately for me, I started to apply for a job as soon as I was confirmed to be laid off. I changed my resume, searched for internal promotion and pushed through the questions at the same time. Two months later, I found a new job, a unicorn, with a higher salary and benefits than before.

Said to “only cut 2”, the result of the whole group was a pot of…

I knew we were going to lay off people. No, the whole group knew we were going to lay off people, but everyone thought it was going to be just two. Our group has been expanding recruitment, and we had interviews almost every week. Two months ago, the manager informed us that we did not need to nominate the senior position, and everyone began to talk about it. The two senior executives in the group had already decided to be promoted, so we assumed they would be laid off.

During that time, the manager had meetings with the boss every day. Everyone said they were thinking about “who should be appointed as the boss after the two leaders left”, and they enjoyed eating melons. It wasn’t until the group sent out an email notice that they realized the scale of the attack was beyond imagination. Many people are still chatting and working as usual on one second, and the next second the office is basically everywhere with a sad face goodbye.

To work for a capitalist is to always have an exit strategy, and companies can do more than you think. I have been looking for a new job for a long time. Now I have got the offer, but I feel sorry for those excellent employees who have worked hard and are suddenly “tearing down the bridge”. I hope everyone can survive.

Will job hunting still be good under the epidemic?

In the midst of the pandemic in the US, many onsite onsite students have been extended or modified. Companies are also slowing down their hiring and some are even laying off staff. Even the no-layoff policy is one day at a time: Linen, which responded early to the call, went from being paid to working from home to being furloughed indefinitely.

If you’re still employed, pay attention to what’s going on in your organization and at the company, and act on the first sign of trouble by reviewing your projects and updating your resume. If all goes well, then you have a general assessment of your recent career. If stone hammer, can also send a resume while using strength to carry with the boss, to avoid being caught off guard.

If you hear rumors of layoffs before you even get the job, prepare a plan B in time and consider the onboarding risks, salary and benefits, and career development carefully.

Take rumors with a grain of salt, and we don’t want to encourage blind suspicion and resignation. Do your job, stay competitive, and be prepared to take risks. There will always be opportunities for advancement whether or not there are layoffs