"Listen, Tamer, the company is going through a tough time financially right now and we have to downsize and let some people go…and unfortunately you’re one of them...but know this is not performance-based."

Those were the exact words that my Senior manager told me on Friday, November 18th when I was let go from my dream job as a Mechanical Design Engineer at Serve Robotics. These words have been replaying in my head for the last few days. Although they reiterated it was NOT performance-based, I can't help but feel shocked and lost due to the nature of this unexpected round of layoffs that affected me and my former co-workers.

I talk more about it in this video. Timestamps are as follows:

00:00 Intro
01:57 how it happened?
05:16 the aftermath
08:13 what I learned
10:13 next steps

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