So my unemployed journey was stopped at #10 because many things happened and today at #37 or 57 days since my last day at work, I finally secured some job offers and agreed to join at a Singapore based company in 2nd January 2025 which I become first Indonesian Developer who will be joined them!
Actually another offer came within the same week, made me took quite hard to choose which offer that will be best for me. By this decision I withdrawn the other offer.
Offering Considerations
I got 3 offers from companies and let me breakdown some points of them
D Company
One of my ex employers so I know most of their working cultures
The position is Head of Engineering
The salary would be significantly dropped from my current salary
On site but only around 10 minutes from my home
Has some interesting management problems that could shape my managerial skills more
S Company
Singapore based company in pharmacy business
Latest funding was Series B and quite stable
The role is senior associate full stack, would be PHP & React
Base salary almost same with my current salary
Work device provided by company
Additional private insurance as work benefit
Full remote
O Company
Singapore based company, social commerce SaaS
Relatively new founded company. Latest funding was pre-seed but they said current business is good and quite sustainable
Will expand the business to Indonesia and I am their first hire as Indonesian Developer
The role is senior PHP engineer
Base salary is higher than current salary
No work device (BYOD)
Full remote
As you can see the last two offers are close enough with my career goal as I still want to pursue IC track rather than managerial track although in the future I probably want to change my direction to managerial role, but that’s not my current priority.
At first, I tent to S company as my next company if I passed the hiring process because the stability and I impressed by their leader. Then the O company gave me an offer with higher salary also they showed me many extra effort just to get me hired.
Spent my whole weekend to think about it because for me it was hard to decide. Then I decided to join the O company and withdrawn the offer from S company because:
more higher salary since I need more additional income for some plans in the near future
O company hiring process came first, although it took too long but they really showed effort to get me hired
More potential to grow especially in career since they have plan to expand to Indonesia and I am their first engineer in Indonesia
The Job Hunting Journey
A little bit retrospective to see how I landed on a new job after applied to many job vacancies. I tried to tracked my job hunting data (recent 3-4 months) and made a data visualization as a summary.
So far I applied to 58 jobs (could be more) and surprisingly most of them are no answer or being ghosted by recruiter. 24 applications are failed, mostly on screening process and few of them failed after technical test or interview.
If I expand the data little bit especially the portion of which stage was contributed more to my hiring process. Ended up screening stage is the most contributed. Could be because no answer or simply they assumed I have no qualifications to went the next stage.
I think this is why we need to tweak our CV or resume to increase the chance of recruiter picked up our application. But portfolios, experiences, and tech stack could be the big factor for them to decide if we passed the screening or not
What is Next?
So yeah, this unemployed journal is complete for now. The next post, I will focus on regular content that is not related with the job hunting.
Cheers!