My take on this post is that things will break, but they should tell you they broke in an actionable and somewhat standardized way. If the only message that shows up is "An error has occured" that doesn't help the user, especially if they are non-technical.
"Impacted" by layoffs on May 24th. Took a nice 3-4 month break before I even started my search. Just started at DoorDash this week. A lot of former Meta/FB folks here
10+ years of experience. Job search was easy this time around. I marked myself as available to opportunities on LinkedIn and within two weeks my inbox was flooded with opportunities. Most of them were not what I was looking for at all, but a few of them were.
I probably applied to a total of 20 places outside of the companies that reached out to me. Most resulted in some form of auto rejection, but a few turned into recruiter calls or more.
The role I ended up taking at DoorDash was from a recruiter reaching out to me back in August.
Curious: at your level of experience, what is the interview process like? For example, for DoorDash, for a mid or junior, they would do Leetcode style + Systems Deisgn right? Did they do stuff like that for you?
They obviously exist but from a quick and dirty google search it looks like there was roughly 500k-600k software engineers in 2000 and over 4 million today in the US. Even if zero of the ones from 2000 attritioned out they’d be ~13% of the work force and I highly doubt none of them have retired in a 2 decade span
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Kustomer is the original omnichannel CX platform, and our mission is to provide the perfect the customer experience. Our engineering team is organized into cross-functional squads, where engineers collaborate side-by-side with product managers, designers, test engineers, and technical writers to truly own a part of our product – almost as a mini startup. We’re looking for engineers, managers, and designers in the NYC area to help us continue to innovate and scale.
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One of the "Requests for Startups" items for YC is for Brick & Mortar 2.0 [1]. I'm curious to see if retail stores being used as fulfillment centers is a more longterm trend after the virus has been tamed. Where would a startup best fit if this does become a trend.
I know when I'm in the market for a new electronic accessory, I'll often go to Best Buy when I just want to see and feel what I'm shopping for. If I decide in-store that I want to purchase something, I'll scan the barcode on the back and see if it's cheaper elsewhere and many times it is. Is there a want for more showrooms for certain high-priced items, even if they aren't things like mattresses and exercise equipment? Could somewhere like Best Buy exist with a much smaller showroom with a handful of TV's and most of their items in a warehouse?
I used to work for a medium sized retailer. There’s strong market at the subpremium level for multiple fulfillment options such as buy online, pickup in store as well as buy in-store and ship to home. We did indeed undertake a massive project such that most, though not all, physical stores became essentially mini fulfillment centers. The benefit to customers was that they could see a product online and go to a store to try it out. If they liked it but wanted say a different size or color that wasn’t in stock then we could ship from a different store and have it available to them wherever. It was quite interesting project to be sure, but customers reacted very positively.
