I work at an e-commerce company that recently took the decision of closing an entire department and laying off all employees from that branch.
Many teams are impacted. I was curious if there is any opportunities/companies looking to hire multiple people, maybe entire team at the time ?
1) Help people focus - when you are laid off its easy to get lost
2) Discuss opportunities - if one of you finds a great job listing, they should share it. You are not so much competing with each other as you are competing with hundreds of others. One more competitor does not matter but increases teams odds.
3) Lay down goals and objectives - Weekly and long term. You should write out your strategy for finding a job, set a time limit for readdressing your strategy (like 3 months).
4) Help each other - write resumes, develop elevator speeches.
5) Support - It is encouraging to know others care. Others will help me redo my resume, and provide encouragement. For those with low self esteem, it will help them boost their resumes properly.
https://stripe.com/blog/bring-your-own-team
Best to all those affected.
I see it as an opportunity for a company to "acquihire" some people for a specific expertise maybe.
But we are certainly all preparing individually at the same time.
Look for Amanda Wittmaack.
if you're looking for a landing spot for a technical team, i might be able to make some intros. can you describe the size and expertise of the team?
We've been working with clojure/java/react/typescript.
We have built a lot of systems, for products catalog management, orders management, customer arrival detection, customer support tooling, among others. We migrated from aws to google cloud.
Clojure was the main lang we used, but we also worked with python, nodejs, some Go.