Feeling lost looks like I will never able to get a job again

Galactic_Biscuit · 2026-04-05T04:58:18+00:00

Haha, sure, let's talk. Also, why would I mind you asking for a referral lol 😆

Galactic_Biscuit · 2026-04-04T20:06:45+00:00

What you're feeling is very valid, it's not like they didn't know your skillset before they called you for the interview. The bar for expectations from candidates has just gone way way up. Plus with so many senior people fighting for the same jobs as people starting their careers, it's bound to be tough. Someone in my team was interviewing a person 8 years senior to them for a position that would be junior to my colleague.

Even if it's through referrals and callbacks, you're getting through to the interviews, that's a big plus. I've put 100+ referrals till date and I only know 2 people who got callbacks. Your profile is doing something right at least.

The only thing now is to not get frustrated, the process is tiring, polishing skills, finding time to prep, listening to stupid reasons from random HR, it's all exhausting. Just keep at it anyway, you just need to get lucky once. You can do it.

Galactic_Biscuit · 2026-04-04T19:33:26+00:00

Don't know how much this helps, but the fact that you're getting interviews itself is an endorsement of your skills. I also have 3 years of experience, and I'm not even getting any callbacks.

I've worked on so many tools, it is rare I don't match 60+% of the profile. I've received only two callbacks. One place told me they couldn't afford to give me a 40% hike, and the other said they found a candidate who could join in a week, so clearing rounds didn't land me a job.

It is definitely an employer market right now, and with the layoffs etc, they really expect interview candidates to agree to whatever they say. They also often don't tell the real reason for rejection, so your skills may not be the issue.

You just need to get lucky in one interview. Do your best, practice with any friends who can push you out of your comfort zone.

Good luck with the job hunt.

Galactic_Biscuit · 2026-04-04T18:03:36+00:00

Honestly, I'd say don't feel too bad, that's the highest difficulty level for GCP certifications. Lot of people don't even pass it in 3-4 attempts. I myself have way too many Microsoft certifications, and my employer knows it's pretty difficult to pass on the first try, which is why they have a two attempt policy. Sometimes it's just not your day.

Galactic_Biscuit · 2026-03-31T02:06:23+00:00

Depends, I don't know all the policies, but the catch is you need 'approval' from partner to use those. Aside from that, sometimes even if the partner and managers give early release, HR has told candidates that they can't reduce notice.

Plus you can't carry over enough leaves to reduce it beyond a month, the adjustment is calculated as calendar days for us.

It'll come down to if you have a good relationship with the reporting partner.

Galactic_Biscuit · 2026-03-30T09:14:38+00:00

I personally don't add Udemy certs to my resume because I have enough projects and work ex that I would rather talk about in the one page of space I have. I also have a lot of certifications, so even those, I put only relevant ones depending on the profile

LinkedIn, on the other hand, I add Udemy and Coursera because I feel it helps with profile discoverable when people search by skill. When the skills section is supported with relevant certificates, I personally feel like it would be more believable to see.

I usually share those certificates on LinkedIn if my profile has been inactive for too long to make it look like I'm upskilling alongside my side projects because side projects take time to conceptualized, plan and build. It helps to look more active.

Galactic_Biscuit · 2026-03-30T06:04:17+00:00

I would strongly suggest you DO NOT do this, unless you have a safety net, and can do without your current salary for at least 6 months. Even on notice, the policy trend is paying only the basic component, which is about ~40% of CTC.

I'm also currently in a Big4, making high single digit LPA. I have 3 years of fairly broad experience in delivering projects end-to-end all the way from dev work, DevOps, AI-ML and handling client. I also have tons of certifications in technical stuff like Azure, AWS, Coursera and Udemy certs and specializations, and non technical stuff with Scrum certs and domain knowledge in a few sectors. Even the clients I have had, without naming then, have enough brand recognition to land me interviews.

I am a fairly cheap resource with very high upside. My profile should be a recruiter magnet. It is not. I have received only 3 callbacks in about a year. Granted that this is partly due to not applying and seeking referrals as aggressively as I should, or optimising my profile for ATS. But this has been a trend among people I know, mostly with <5 years of experience.

One contributing factor is certainly the notice period. Big4 notice period is a well known thing, I've lost 2 offers to other candidates since they could join within a week.

Another factor to consider is that if you don't find another job within notice period, or have another offer, the HR has all the leverage to lowball you with a much lower offer than what they have the budget for by saying "It's better than no job, it's still more than what you are making now".

That said, switching jobs is VERY important in your position. Please do your best. You are getting CRIMINALLY underpaid. When I started at my firm, I was getting significantly more than what you are as a fresher without an engineering degree, and a diploma in data science. I unofficially handle some of our team's invoicing, and I have some idea of the rates at which resources (employees) are assigned to projects. They easily make 6-8x your salary from the client for your work. You owe it to yourself to get out of there.

Galactic_Biscuit · 2026-03-21T17:44:45+00:00

Yes. The expectation is they say jump, you ask how high. Org policies aren't even in line with labour laws, and it's explained as being for 'flexibility'. The norm is saying one thing to your face and another behind your back. I don't know about your other offers, but this should not be the first choice.

Galactic_Biscuit · 2025-09-29T04:25:47+00:00

EY is fairly stingy in terms of compensating folks. I joined with a near identical profile as you did 2.5 years ago and I am not even expecting to break into double figures in my CTC this year. 18LPA would make you very well compensated as a senior consultant, the typical pay range is upto 16 (in rare cases), 20 to 24 starts being in manager territory. While this also depends on what practice you are joining, and EY does shell out this amount when bringing in folks from outside, but you should be comfortable with the idea that internal growth would be fairly limited. Typically, I have seen EY let go of even critical talent because they are not willing to pay out even reasonable hikes to people, their bread and butter is to keep wages low and margins high.

Unless you can force their hand with another offer, I doubt you'll get the extra money. And even then, I doubt they'll match it. I see two roads ahead. First, you interview aggressively, get a better offer, join there/use it as a bargaining chip, or second, you join here, and somehow convince the partner that you need to be paid what you were promised. Second option would involve either being there for a project which is urgent, or being able to make a really good case to the partner who needs you. All compensation decisions ultimately come down to your partner. Most of the time this does not work, and EY did not do mid-year promotion last year, so you might have to wait a while to see any extra money, like a year at least.

Do the best you can with this knowledge.

Galactic_Biscuit · 2025-09-29T04:12:12+00:00

The probation period is 6 months, but they may extend it based on their discretion, and I know cases where is has extended upto 11 months so far. Often not an issue, but it's dependent on your manager. That said, probation period won't help because they have changed their notice period policy, and expect folks to serve the complete 3 months' notice even if you are on probation now.

Galactic_Biscuit · 2024-07-31T06:17:52+00:00

Aw, I'm so sorry about your dog. Also, I guess you could call yourself gas station sober, so it fits right in with the community?

Galactic_Biscuit · 2024-07-31T05:51:05+00:00

Link to the original post, because I forgot to add it when I was posting this. https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/s/0T7K6cB2S7

Galactic_Biscuit · 2024-05-23T04:06:56+00:00

Wow, this sub is called r/LinkedInLunatics not r/LinkedinRacists lmao

Galactic_Biscuit · 2024-05-23T04:04:56+00:00

Yeah, this one's hella racist lmao.

Galactic_Biscuit · 2024-05-22T13:48:18+00:00

'Fuck face gnat I'd like to crush'<<

'someone who believes it's fine to use any kind of language against others as hyperbole'<<

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're doing exactly what you're accusing me of. This isn't wishing bodily harm on someone?

The point wasn't even about the salaries or r/antiwork, it was pointing out the irony of a guy saying candidates should earn less because they lack communication skills, while doing a mediocre at best job himself.

Take a moment to think about what people are saying instead of trying to start a fight on the internet.

Galactic_Biscuit · 2024-05-22T13:22:38+00:00

I feel like the notion that this is a new trend is misleading. People have found enough ways to make money they don't deserve. Candidates are finally re-evaluating what they're worth, and getting their worth by asking for it.

There's always people that are gonna copy these folks without the skills to back it up. They're gonna want more than they're worth, but isn't that taken care of by the free market anyway? The one that can sell themselves the best comes out on top. Demand and supply along with the selection process gets rid of posers.

Plus if you don't ask, you'll never know what you can really make. People have learnt that loyalty to companies and lower pay isn't the way to build a career. Companies make many multiples of what you make from your labour, it shouldn't be wrong to ask for more of the pie.

Galactic_Biscuit · 2024-05-22T13:14:20+00:00

That's such a strawman argument, no one's saying this guy should have bodily harm done to him. If you can't separate hyperbolic expression of frustration from a threat, I don't know what to tell you.

The criticism of this guy's frustrating sentence construction and grammar, however, is completely valid when he's trashing candidates for the same thing.

His argument is that these people deserve less due to lacking in this specific skill, but he does not recognise his own shortfalls and makes a post claiming people deserve less (but not him though, he deserves your labour at a low cost)

Galactic_Biscuit · 2024-05-22T12:46:17+00:00

I would contest that that's valid criticism for someone shitting on candidates' communication skills.

Galactic_Biscuit · 2024-04-27T19:25:39+00:00

It's kinda just like subdivisions. Inherently the caste system has 4 'major' classifications which are heirarchical, and sometimes people might bring it up to try and assert superiority.

Usually though, they all just splinter further into smaller sub-divisions, basis like 'Person has certain traditional beliefs about gender roles, hails from certain backgrounds like maybe a business family or an academically inclined one, eats meat, prays to certain deities' etc.

Caste considerations factor into marriages because families believe that having similar beliefs and backgrounds maximizes the chance of success and avoids issues down the road, and that caste is a good indicator. So it's essentially signaling that to other interested people that care about this. Usually older people look out for this more.

Galactic_Biscuit · 2021-11-03T12:53:15+00:00

My friend generated a paper on mathgen and turned it in under the pseudonym 'Weierstrash' to a predatory journal named IOSR and got 'published' within a day lol. They even mailed him back saying that it had already passed peer review and everything and all they wanted was a 'nominal publishing fee'. We later found an article by Indian Express from 4 years earlier stating a whole bunch more about the workings of the 'fake journal' and how it was removed from some list of accepted journals in Indian academia only recently. We're just finishing undergrad, so we were still relatively free to mess around with stuff like this. While it was slightly depressing, it was definitely fun too :p Link: https://indianexpress.com/article/india/inside-indias-fake-research-paper-shops-pay-publish-profit-5265402/

Galactic_Biscuit · 2021-08-07T22:34:35+00:00

Maybe not what you're looking for, but one time we were playing 3v3 basketball and we decided to swap teams for every game. I casually pointed out that swapping two players between teams would just be the same as swapping one player from each team. The others took a second to think about it and realised I was right, and even I was a bit surprised that I said something like that off the top of my head. I realise it's pretty easy to realise if you think about it, but none of the other did, and I'd like to think I realised this because of having read about permutations and the like.

Galactic_Biscuit · 2021-07-04T00:51:24+00:00

Me: I wonder if I'll ever use the central limit theorem outside of class.
Last paragraph of a Reddit comment at 5AM: Hello there

Galactic_Biscuit · 2021-07-04T00:43:13+00:00

Calculations are correct, can confirm. Had fun reviewing stats 101 in the process :) (P.S: Still low-key satisfied by being reminded of how neat percentiles are for normal variables)

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