06-19-2020, 12:59 PM
Sooooo looks like I'm probably headed to Durham-Raleigh. Not sure if anyone has any contacts there but I could use some advice as far as places to live. The tentative long term plan would be to settle in an area like Cary or Morrisville so I can commute to either city. I know some people mentioned some advice in the chat but it's easier to remember a forum post, so please chime in if you can.
The longer story for anyone that cares or is bored: I'm in this weird state with Amazon where I'm over-qualified for any SDE1 role (they won't interview me) and not quite qualified for their SDE2 roles (don't have the experience at scale). I'm not on any kinda cooldown after "passed but being passed on" my last phone screen. But having trouble getting any team to talk to me, so yeah that's fun. I guess I could just wait for HQ2 to actually get built but not sure I can wait that long. The rest of NoVA just wasn't looking too pretty for housing, Richmond doesn't pay well enough outside of Capital One and remote jobs are just too few and far between. Was in the final stages with a California start-up and had to pull the plug when I saw their stock take an 80% nosedive in that last week of talks. Made a move to take over the lead role at my current gig and while they did force the current lead to step down finally, they gave it to someone else and then blocked my application for an internal transfer to lead another team (fun times). So needless to say I'm pretty motivated to shed these remote/NoVA golden handcuffs and live around some viable options again. Durham seems like the perfect mix of location, housing market and opportunities. In resume shotgun blast mode right now. If anyone knows any recruiters or contacts, I'd gladly hear them.
The longer story for anyone that cares or is bored: I'm in this weird state with Amazon where I'm over-qualified for any SDE1 role (they won't interview me) and not quite qualified for their SDE2 roles (don't have the experience at scale). I'm not on any kinda cooldown after "passed but being passed on" my last phone screen. But having trouble getting any team to talk to me, so yeah that's fun. I guess I could just wait for HQ2 to actually get built but not sure I can wait that long. The rest of NoVA just wasn't looking too pretty for housing, Richmond doesn't pay well enough outside of Capital One and remote jobs are just too few and far between. Was in the final stages with a California start-up and had to pull the plug when I saw their stock take an 80% nosedive in that last week of talks. Made a move to take over the lead role at my current gig and while they did force the current lead to step down finally, they gave it to someone else and then blocked my application for an internal transfer to lead another team (fun times). So needless to say I'm pretty motivated to shed these remote/NoVA golden handcuffs and live around some viable options again. Durham seems like the perfect mix of location, housing market and opportunities. In resume shotgun blast mode right now. If anyone knows any recruiters or contacts, I'd gladly hear them.