u/racheletc wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
that’s a good point, maybe ill do that. does it look v bad to leave a job (esp your first job) after less than 1 yr?
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited
Hi /u/racheletc, I read through the thread and sorry to hear. I have a few thoughts on this. (For context, I was at FB for 8 years, now I help train and mentor people get top tier jobs, we have a person who ran the FB internship program for 10 years on staff too, lots of experience with university recruiting in general).
1. Sorry to hear this :(. A lot of people kind of cruised through senior year looking forward to that new job and it’s really turned things upside down overnight.
2. So you are correct about new grad pipelines at big tech. But there are still some angles you can work. Google and Amazon should have paths. And a tier of top companies, like Figma, might have paths as well depending on your specific case.
3. Leaving a job from a startup in under a year doesn’t look bad per se, but it raises flags you have to explain. What happened is a good reason. But that said, rule of thumb with startups is to stay a year and best stock because you never know what will happen! (I know someone that left a tiny company, didn’t vest, and the stock would have been worth millions of dollars).
Let me know if you have more questions or hit me up on LinkedIn!