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1. I was a designer at a real estate tech company that was laid off the end of last year (along with like 90% of the company). I joined in June of 2022 and was laid off November of 2022. There was one round of layoffs in July of around 30%, and then another round in November of close to 90%. The company went from somewhere around 60 employees in January of 2022 to close to 350 by June of 2022, then to under 30 in November of 2022. Being in real estate tech, as interest rates rose, platform demand dropped and kept on dropping.

2. I pretty much immediately started job hunting and interviewing, and went through a 9 round interview to land another job (with a 10% pay cut) that I started the end of January this year.

3. Not really. It was a bummer because I was in the process of moving to NYC, and obviously needed to secure a job as quick as possible to secure an apartment. It also sucked to be laid off a few days before my birthday and only a month before Christmas. But luckily I landed something new pretty quick.