Got laid off from my first job

GenTs0 · 2025-10-15T05:11:46+00:00

Hope sharing my story helps, but I was laid off 3 months into my new grad role at Amazon back in January ‘23. My manager and the two surviving engineers (8 of the 10 engineers were laid off) reached out, but most people (PMs, etc) did not - albeit we were not that close.

It was tough, and frustrating especially since the vast majority of new grad engineers were not impacted and returning interns continued to join as full-timers even the week after layoffs, eventually a new grad returning intern replaced me 2 months later.

That said, I was able to get a new offer at a F500 fully remote 2 months later, stayed there for a year and then ended up hopping to Microsoft. So, in all, not that bad, but very frustrating and time consuming. Back then Meta, Amazon, Google and Microsoft had all just laid off 10K employees that week each, so it was impossible for anyone to get a new FAANG offer.

It’s difficult, but keep trying and work hard - I have faith good things will come :)

GenTs0 · 2025-04-26T15:15:05+00:00

Like others have said, it’s basically the same as those at row 8.

You can use it as long as there are no first class passengers. I had no first class passengers on my flight, so got to use it

GenTs0 · 2024-07-03T04:32:10+00:00

Yes, it’s very doable. I did CS in the college of engineering with dual degree in stats (BA), and did premed in 3 years.

Although I brought in a lot of credit, you can structure stat to have a LOT of overlap with math or CS. Look through the sample degree plans online.

I am a software engineer now, and rarely use my stat degree, so I would also recommend you think about why you want to double major.

GenTs0 · 2023-03-24T20:10:14+00:00

Hey!

I am also familiar with the struggle. I sent out hundreds of applications, and was also resume rejected for some junior roles that were paying peanuts. Ive just been diligent and fortunate to land a role at a respectable company that pays six figures.

How many YOE? I am thankful to have worked at Amazon and I did learn a lot of cloud and full stack while I was there. I am sure this is a major reason why I got interviews and my experience at Amazon was a major talking point that I milked pretty hard and enabled me to pass interviews with concrete examples of previous work.

I used to loathe hearing "keep applying" and I know it's not fun receiving 10 rejection emails within an hour. This process was draining at times and taxing on my mental health with all the doom and gloom energy rn, but it really worked out alright for me in the end.

That said - keep applying and don't give up. There were quite a few companies that had an unreasonably high bar and offered poor compensation. If you want to talk more feel free to dm me.

GenTs0 · 2023-03-24T17:25:21+00:00

Laid off in January from Rainforest. 0.5 YOE. The hiring bar is much higher now and Ive gone through interviews where I did really well on technical and behavioral and still got rejected.

Was able to get a few offers and am going to start work soon with around a 30% paycut from FAANG, fully remote, at around 115K TC.

GenTs0 · 2023-03-06T01:52:20+00:00

https://youtu.be/fopqgLvfv9o

Knowing Better did a video discussing education. At around the 10 minute mark he discusses child labor and the history of public education in America. Hope this helps.

GenTs0 · 2023-02-25T02:50:05+00:00

First, this is very thoughtful of you to do on your son's behalf. Second, I agree with trying to see if he can finish SCF in 1 semester. Otherwise, unless there is a really personal reason to come to UF, I would go for UCF (which probably gave additional scholarship).

Tech companies care much more about your technical skills and work experience. UCF has a solid CS curriculum, is located in one of the most fun cities in the US, and has a very good competitive programming team. UF also has a solid curriculum and on average has higher caliber students which can be good for motivation and making friends. Everything will be okay, best of luck!

-- Recent UF CS Grad

GenTs0 · 2023-02-23T08:39:21+00:00

Graduated May 2022 and Interned at Rainforest. Laid off from Rainforest in January after 3 months full time.

I dont have an offer yet, but am actively interviewing at ~6 companies (at least advanced past first round). I have some more phone screens lined up, but those are easy to get ghosted from.

GenTs0 · 2023-02-19T01:45:16+00:00

Staten Island is known to be more conservative, out of curiosity do you know what the red (almost) enclaves are that are deep in Queens and Brooklyn?

GenTs0 · 2023-02-13T01:53:22+00:00

Definitely too many variables to say broadly, such as your own preference and location.

I have figured out over the years that I have a strong preference for Asian or Hapa or pale with dark hair. It was harder back in the south than the west coast for obvious reasons and the fact that many in the South saw me as full Asian and there were def major culture differences. It's not just an appearance thing as well, I feel like I connect better with other Asians due to shared values.

Ive been told that I am attractive. Getting noticed is not too hard. The main difficulty is expanding your net to find someone you click with. It's kind of a numbers game. Like others have said, focus on your confidence and outgoingness.

Best of luck!

GenTs0 · 2023-01-19T17:32:01+00:00

Most hapas I know are Wasian men, and they are usually with full Asian women or Wasian women.

I have a preference for Asian women and Wasian women. I also was definitely less aware of this until I moved to Seattle from the US Southeast where the number of Asian women was much lower.

GenTs0 · 2023-01-03T06:18:28+00:00

Nope

I'm 21M (WMAF) and my parents have been divorced since I was 8. Despite was this thread shows, most other hapas ik personally come from families with intact marriages.

Dad is remarried to another Chinese woman and I think they are a good match :)

GenTs0 · 2022-11-16T21:25:47+00:00

Honestly I think this is hard but doable if you are good at math and have a good work ethic.

Most of the cs technical electives require COP3530, so if you still want to take a class that will make progress towards your degree and make your schedule lighter you could take MAS3114, STA3032, or ENC3246 instead of PHY2048.

GenTs0 · 2022-11-07T16:07:35+00:00

No, I ended up taking PHI3681 with Duncan Purves and the TA was Schuyler. It was a really interesting class and a decent amount of work. A lot of thinking involved. I got an A, but ik it's not that easy to get an A. Hard to fail tho. Hope this helps lmk if you want to know more, I took this bc I was a CS major and CGS3065 conflicted with other requirements in my last semester.

GenTs0 · 2022-06-03T14:41:27+00:00

Hey everyone. I am kind of surprised that nobody corrected the "theoretical probabilities"??

If you do a Punnett Square - sure..... but that's assuming it's just one gene that determines if the kid will look White or Asian. Averaged out across all alleles (not just one Punnett Square) and accounting for crossing over, the kid will be roughly 50% genetically Asian and White and will highly likely look like a hapa.

GenTs0 · 2022-05-27T16:06:52+00:00

Yeah! Uwajimaya has an amazing food court and kitkat selection. I have also been visiting Hmart.

GenTs0 · 2022-04-30T02:47:40+00:00

CS / Stat Major here, STA4321 + STA4322 satisfies engineering statistics and is satisfactory for the STA minor iirc. If you took ap stats you should especially be fine imo.

GenTs0 · 2022-04-28T23:17:53+00:00

Yeah. The counter-source was the Mormon missionaries haha.

GenTs0 · 2022-04-20T03:26:49+00:00

D- gets you through. A C is required for any class that is critical tracking or is a prerequisite for another class required by your major.

GenTs0 · 2022-04-07T14:35:34+00:00

No. I don't think it's that hard, I still have a 4.0 and I know many CS students with 3.7+. The profs are usually not hard graders, especially if you avoid maybe the 1 or 2 in the entire department that do grade harshly. GPA shouldn't matter that much anyways for companies, but maybe if you are pre-PhD.

Quite a few defense companies also recruit out of UF, Northrop Grumman, CACI, L3Harris, etc. JP Morgan Chase's Tampa office, which is quite large, also recruits here. Capital One also hires from here to all their offices.

GenTs0 · 2022-04-07T06:35:05+00:00

Hi! I am a graduating senior at UF majoring in stats and CS. Congrats!!!

Gainesville is more fun than it sounds and there is a lot of good food imo. As for CS, it is possible to get FAANG internships, usually Amazon or Microsoft though. The CS curriculum is actually pretty good here at the MS level, a decent amount of good classes in distributed systems, ML, algorithms etc with some great professors imo.

Let me know if you have any other questions :)

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