Joe P

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Founder/CEO @SimpleApply | NYC 🗽
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[Joe P @joegetsyouhired]

60,000 Microsoft buyouts is a lot of people looking at once.

If this is hitting your team, the play isn't spraying applications everywhere. Pick a clear lane, get into new roles early, then reach a real person on the team.

Hard market. Not a dead one. As of this month we're still seeing about 90 interview invites every weekday.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.

Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.

This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.

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@RecruJuli The non-technical skillsets in tech I think have it the worst right now.

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@danshipper - 100% of jobs eliminated within 10 years

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@typeava What you used, how you used it, and what you achieved works well

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@neet_sol

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@GergelyOrosz People used to go to Microsoft to ride off into the sunset. Not anymore it seems. But to your point, they're letting some folks control their destiny which makes it sting a little less.

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@Codie_Sanchez I would not recommend using the "Open to Work" banner at all.

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AI is speeding up how big companies cut. The larger the company, the more you're seeing buyouts and leaner teams.

If you're watching that happen around you, don't wait for the email. Get feelers out now: pick a clear lane, get into new roles early, then reach a real person on the team.

It's a hard market, but it's still moving.

[BowTiedBull.eth - Read Pinned or NGMI @BowTiedBull]

Anthropic IPO should make you start a biz asap.

Those white collar positions will be eaten alive, as seen by the MSFT news

Reasonable to say back office is just code now

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@MichaelWaitze Job seekers at these companies should start putting out some feelers. In my experience, if a company doesn't get the number of voluntary resignations they're aiming for, layoffs come next.

[Joe P @joegetsyouhired]

60,000 Microsoft buyouts is a lot of people looking at once.

If this is hitting your team, the play isn't spraying applications everywhere. Pick a clear lane, get into new roles early, then reach a real person on the team.

Hard market. Not a dead one. As of this month we're still seeing about 90 interview invites every weekday.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.

Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.

This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.

[Joe P @joegetsyouhired]

@aakashgupta Former PM turned founder here, so biased take. Product work teaches you to obsess over the problem, but nobody tells you distribution matters just as much. Posting consistently did more for my company than any single feature I shipped.

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@morganjingram Same goes for anyone job hunting for a sales role. Treat the search like outbound, with volume plus alignment and a real person on the other end.

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@lennysan This one hits home. Building for a problem you actually have gets you started, but it doesn't get you customers. My biggest mistake was waiting too long to put a face to the company, because people buy from people, not a brand.

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@BarefootStudent Rough number, but the market is hard, not dead. We tracked about 2,000 interview invites for users in the last 30 days. What works is picking a clear lane, getting into new roles early, then reaching a real person on the team.

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@aakashgupta When I was a PM, I'd have guessed the way in was a perfect resume for every posting. Our internal testing says otherwise. One strong resume per role type, tested and then adjusted, beats tailoring for every job.

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Mahesh got more than 10 interview invites in less than two months.

He had received one offer with quite a few other interviews in the pipeline.

He said the biggest change was spending his time on interview prep instead of the applications.

That's the part that actually moves the search.

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@shafu0x Much "easier" to find a non tech job in NYC too. A lot of banks, media companies, and other F500s are hiring.

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@JesseTinsley Early and wrong look the same until the data comes in. I used to assume more applications always meant more interviews, until our data showed alignment matters more.

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@JerryJHLee Agree with the spirit of this. Describe the work you actually did and the impact it had, so the title matches what a hiring manager would hear if they called your old boss.

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@thejustinwelsh Founder life makes this easy to forget. You can hit every number and still be someone nobody wants to work with. People buy from people, so the person matters as much as the metrics.

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@aakashgupta Same lesson in job search tools. The hard part isn’t adding more AI, but knowing where AI should stop, and keeping the judgment calls for yourself.