I was recently laid off at a tech company. I have 5 years experience in this industry, 10 years in the tech space. Despite record profits this year, my company decided to lay off 10% of the workforce. So I applied to our #1 competitor.
The new job told me they had previously hired people with no experience, but wanted to hire experienced people this time around. I literally know this company’s product and customer base from my 5 years experience in this industry. I could nail this job!
I spent 3 weeks and many hours of time for 3 interviews with 6 of their employees only to find out they are going with someone else. Their feedback was they wanted me to expand more on one of their questions during the interview. Why didn’t they ask follow up questions if they wanted to know more?
The weird thing is the base pay is about half the industry standard, and they were giving that to people with no experience. This job market is shit when I have the experience, and on paper I am the perfect candidate and I can’t get a job they give to people who have never done it before. Starting to feel hopeless.
Btw I’m applying like crazy and NO ONE is calling me back.