You are unemployed. You just have some money around for a few months (usually 3 months) to look for a new job. It's tough out there to get a new job, even senior engineers have hard time getting through interviews.
We just interviewed a PM from HPE and to our surprise, he makes ~$180k a year. We hired an awesome candidate for $80k.
And no, finding a job in 2 weeks is not realistically obtainable for a senior engineer. Try 6 months to a year. This whole 'developer shortage' BS I keep hearing needs to stop.
And besides, most employers' hiring timelines (from first contact to first day on the job) are longer than 2 weeks.
No BS or bad vibes; Just real peeps writing code and having fun doing it and always looking to add great people to the team because the demand is high and experienced talent is in short supply.
* you shouldn't work for a job you are not going to be happy about (of course you can't be too picky)
* because interview sucks (numerous highly regarded engineers were turned down by big tech companies)
* because some jobs require you to move despite you like the job
Good for HPE PM though.