Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?
Here's the flip side: I was hiring (at a stealth vc-funded startup).I reached out to every designer and coder laid off from Twitter and Amazon (one of my investors sent me a spreadsheet that those laid off folks added their contact info to).I didn't receive a single interested response to my reach outs. Now granted, I'm sure they were bombarded with lots of startup offers and being picky what company/stage they were responding to, or were still in grief mode and not ready to start looking, or maybe (probably!) my reach-out finesse was lacking.But I'm just pointing out that their are definitely companies like mine who are hiring and it's not all doom and gloom for laid off folks.I ended up hiring via ads on LinkedIn and job posts on eng message boards.Being real for a minute: There is definitely a perspective among hiring companies that regular lay offs are sometimes packaged alongside bottom performers, but I think that is something they would just do diligence on during an interview process.