hellolemon

I think this it. I need to invest in other areas of my life.

I don’t know. All logic points to just staying to weather the storm and there is really no harm in staying. But my mind is questioning my choice everyday.

Look at his LinkedIn profile and you will quickly see how unqualified he is for the CEO role. He is the slope as he puts it. And no high Y would work for him.

Be honest with them and sell them on your vision.

If you have done 40 interviews, you are clearly qualified for the roles. I think you need to be more selective about what roles you apply to, and spent more time preparing for the interviews. Answer basic questions like why are you applying to that company? What do you gain from that role? People can smell desperation.

I only started job searching seriously in July and I even took 2 weeks off in August. I was also unemployed. I only interviewed for the roles that I clearly felt was what I wanted. I spent weeks preparing for them and only did 2 final interviews. One I got rejected due to hiring freeze, but I got an offer for the second one in mid September.

So my advice is to really ask yourself why do you want to apply for a role. Don’t machine gun it.

It’s risky to hire an engineer to be solutions architect because they deal with large clients. Most engineers don’t have soft skills and could easily offend people without knowing. Try and have an old colleague that is non-technical refer you. I think it’s a great role to do 1-2 years; especially, if you have strong technicals. Lot of C level roles requires interpersonal skills and dealing with external stakeholders. Don’t worry about it being a downlevel unless your goal is to stay technical your entire career. There are plenty of technical people and not many technical people that can communicate well with non-technical. Figure out what your end goal is.