Layoff Diary

📗 Affected (by layoff) colleagues are starting to look for a job

Today is the last day we stay in Singapore this year. We will come back after the holiday and with a new job.

Yesterday I went to Linked and accepted some invitations to connect with more people.

Nayanda, an iOS engineer, got affected and connected to me. He’s using the bad OpenForWork tag to look for new opportunities. He got an offer to stay at Carousell, but with a cutoff of 30% salary and working remotely from Indonesia. He didn’t accept it. Because it’s lower than the previous salary, he got. So now he's open for work.

I saw another Carousell guy posted the news on LinkedIn. He had 16 years of experience in marketing or something. And got reposts from many people to spread the news. Hopefully, he can get some interviews soon.

We will pack things today. Truc is going to Uniqlo to buy some jackets for Su. It’s cold in Ha Noi. We need some to cover up. I’ll pack things soon, so I want to leverage this free time to write something.

📗 Digest the bad news of layoff and meeting Felipe

Many things happened to me. The worse thing is I got laid off from Carousell. I have no more work now.

I need to find a new job in Singapore. Because Truc is going to get an offer soon from Gitlab. It’s amazing.

I will go and meet [[Felipe]] this afternoon. He’s a Design Manager at Grab now. I think Grab is hiring a couple positions. I will talk to him first. I need to know how Grab and what the position is. And some advice from Felipe on the interview process. It’s good that have him.

We will also let the kids meet. I think his daughter, Nina is older than Su, about 1.5-year distance. It shouldn’t be a problem. Kids love to play with each other.