Interesting retro from a software engineer let go by Meta last year. The mindset shift is clear (‘started paying attention to recruiters’), the candidate experience still inevitably poor (‘applied online to 14 places, only heard back from 6’) and the power of the network still evident. Can be read as a
qualitative evidence of the state of tech hiring, but also as insight on the candidate mindset in this period of long uncertainty. Get in touch with your candidates folks, even if you aren’t immediately hiring.