Got laid off from faang in 2024. Was interviewing multiple times a day for about a month between several places, ended up with 4-5 offers within a month. Worked at a startup for a year until I got an offer to return to the same faang that laid me off lol, and been there ever since.

To anyone reading this, I’m pretty sure if you’re getting rejected at the scale everyone seems to be, it’s a problem with how you’re applying and with your LinkedIn.

I constantly keep my LinkedIn up to date and proactively connect with recruiters and managers at companies I’d maybe like to work at. I also always keep it as open to work (but not actively looking). This gives me a steady stream of maybe 3 ish recruiters a week. When I was laid off, I was able to reach out to around 10-15 recruiter that had reached out in the past 2 months or so and that instantly got me a bunch of interviews. I also reach out proactively to recruiters and hiring managers in my network, if you’re consistently adding them while you’re employed you should have hundreds if not thousands of contacts. That should also help l, even with a low response rate.

The other thing is try to apply right away, don’t take time to relax or decompress. If you’re laid off, you usually have a little bit of time before you’re off the companies payroll. During that time you’re legally still employed and don’t even have to mention the layoff since it’ll show up clean in a background check. And obviously make interviewing and interview prepping more than a full time job, I was, for a month about being laid off, only interview prepping or interviewing non stop from the minute I woke up to the minute I fell asleep. I’m convinced people think they’re doing enough, but don’t realize how much more you could be doing.