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Last year in May, I was wiped up by the 5% mass layoffs from CrowdStrike after just four months of working there.
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Last year in May, I was wiped up by the 5% mass layoffs from CrowdStrike after just four months of working there.
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And the whole experience was pretty insane.
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I had just joined the weekly team meeting at 8.30 a.m.
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There were quite a few people missing,
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and then also everybody looked like they were about to cry.
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And so immediately I was like,
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oh man, what's going on?
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I checked my Outlook email,
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and then I saw the calendar,
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had an invite for the VP of engineering at like,
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I forget what time it was,
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or sometime in the morning.
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And yeah, obviously as a software engineer level one,
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you're never meeting with the VP of engineering for a good reason.
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And so I immediately knew something bad had happened.
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I'm sure some of you have experienced this before,
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but when I saw that calendar invite appear on my Outlook,
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I just remember my heart rate like absolutely skyrocketing.
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That is the most stress I've ever been in my whole life.
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Like nothing can even compare to that,
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like no testing college, no, nothing like that.
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So my heartbeat was just going insane.
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It felt like I couldn't really hear anything.
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I just felt this complete sense of like dread and doom
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and like just yeah just complete devastation
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because it felt like what I had been working for all those years in college
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and then you know leaving my prior job after just one
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year being there to get to this point it just felt like all
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that had just come crashing down within you know just two minutes of joining the meeting.
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So I messaged my manager who was in the Zoom meeting and I said hey check out this calendar invite
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looks like I'm getting laid off.
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He said, send me a screenshot.
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I sent it over.
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And then he basically said,
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yeah, that's what it looks like.
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Let me know if you want to hop on Zoom and discuss.
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The Zoom meeting with my manager was pretty short.
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It basically just consisted of him telling me,
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you know, sorry, this is happening.
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And then I asked, was there anything I could have done to secure my spot or made a difference in this decision?
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And he basically said, no,
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you know, I've only been there four months.
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It's not like I could work on something high impact.
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I had pretty much just finished onboarding,
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especially as a software engineer level one.
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and my feedback on the team so far has been great.
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So after the meeting with my manager,
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I pretty much just had to sit
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and wait for a little bit until the actual meeting with the VP of engineering was going to start,
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AKA layoff time.
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And so when that started, it was pretty weird.
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I thought I was going to have a chance to talk to HR,
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maybe ask to be repositioned within the org or something along those lines,
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but that was not the case basically all 500 of us got dumped into a Zoom webinar so we couldn't even chat,
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no reactions, no one-on-one contact obviously because they're laying off so many people at one time.
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And so the VP of engineering was there with whoever from HR was there.
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Together they basically told us you know,
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effective immediately you're being laid off.
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Thank you and there's nothing else to really say so let's end the meeting here.
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And I don't know if any of you guys have watched Succession
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but it really reminded me of when Greg laid off like an entire team at ATN.
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Not sure if you guys get that reference,
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but that's really what it felt like in that moment.
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It was almost so bad it was comical.
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So I messaged one of my friends on the team that I talked to the most and I said,
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hey this is what's going on and being laid off and he was like, no way.
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And we were doing a little bit of communication.
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I got his phone number just as a contact and then right as I was messaging him to say,
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hey could you see my LinkedIn and the Slack channel,
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my computer went black, everything shut down
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and my laptop was basically completely bricked within like two minutes of the 500 person webinar meeting.
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So then I had to text message him and say,
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you know, hey, I just got locked out of my computer.
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Could you send my LinkedIn in the Slack channel,
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which luckily I was working on a pretty large team.
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So it hit a lot of people and he agreed.
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Once my LinkedIn got posted in that channel,
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a lot of people reached out,
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which was really nice to see.
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Basically some of them were just saying,
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you know, so sorry, this happened, doesn't make any sense.
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And then others were saying,
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you know, I'll reach out on my network and see
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if there's any job openings I can find for you or refer you to anything.
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So I'm super grateful to everybody who reached out to me
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and especially the person who sent my LinkedIn in the channel for me after getting locked out.
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And I was super lucky that somebody senior on the team reached out to me and said,
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hey, so sorry this happened, doesn't make any sense.
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I have a friend who has a startup and,
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you know, let me know if you'd be interested in that position.
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I obviously said yes immediately.
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I said, let me send you my resume,
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my information, and you can forward this over to them and they can get in touch with me.
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One thing I want to note here before I keep going on about the layoff experience is
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that I was extremely lucky in my position when I got laid off.
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Not only did I get referred to that startup,
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which I did end up working for and I'm still working for now part-time,
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I also had another AI startup that I was already talking to that I was able to fall back on as well.
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But yeah, that's basically all I wanted to say before moving on to the rest of the layoff stuff.
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So going back to my layoff experience,
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what's crazy is that before the layoff happened,
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I think it might have been less than a month before I was having lunch with my manager
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and he was just you know asking me where's my head
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at you know what am I thinking how things have been
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so far and I remember telling him
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that I feel like I'm in a race against time here
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you know junior level roles seems like they're getting slashed you know all across the U.S just worldwide
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and I was basically saying you know with the advent of AI regardless of whether it's truly boosting productivity
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or not seems like that's the direction companies are moving in
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and so it just feels like I'm in a race to basically get promoted before I get cut.
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And he told me something along the lines of,
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yeah, it's possible, but ideally,
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that wouldn't happen here because,
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you know, the company needs to invest in the future.
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And if we only hire senior engineers,
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then what are we going to do,
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you know, in 10 years time when they all leave?
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And that wasn't very reassuring to me.
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And it turned out to be not true.
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So it's just kind of strange having that exact conversation about me being replaced by AI.
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And then, you know, CrowdStrike releases an email basically saying we're laying off people because of AI efficiencies.
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And what's super ironic about this whole situation is that,
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you know, I'm being told I'm being laid off by AI, productivity boosts, basically.
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But, and I want to be careful here saying this,
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when I joined, I was pretty much the only one on the team,
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you know, being young, that had any experience with,
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you know, AI development tools like,
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you know, cursor, cloud code, codex, et cetera.
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And none of them had really seen it before when I was talking to them about it at lunch and they,
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you know, were super interested once I showed them,
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you know, videos of it and things like that.
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And then I actually poked around and found the internal AI company tool,
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which I won't go into too much detail,
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basically just think about it like Copilot, nothing special, right?
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Like they're always behind on the tooling because they have to develop it internally at these large companies.
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And then I showed it to the team.
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I gave a pretty, you know,
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big presentation to the team during one of the meetings
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and then they all started using it more and more and
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so it's just funny to me
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that you know I'm being told I'm being laid off by AI
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when I'm the one who's kind of showing the team the power of it
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so that pretty much concludes my whole layoff experience um
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and my you know kind of quick life update on my current job situation
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which you know again super grateful and super lucky to be in this position
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but what I will say is
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that it's pretty shocking well honestly at this point it's not
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shocking like it's just crazy to see you know it felt like to me when Crosshack laid off 500 people,
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that felt insane because after,
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you know, there was a spreadsheet of all the people who got laid off
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and I was just scrolling through it and I was like, this is insane.
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Senior engineers, principal engineers, staff engineers,
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just full of high level people that just got wiped out probably after like 10 years of being at the company.
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And, you know, especially now after seeing the Amazon layouts,
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which is 16,000, which I can't even fathom.
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It's just pretty insane how these layouts just keep on coming.
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So, you know, let me know in the comments
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if you have any questions about my experience
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and you know let me know if you guys have gone through anything similar thanks for watching
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