I was affected July last year, some info which I think is useful:
- It’s not end of the world.
They give you 3 months of having to do nothing while still covered by benefits and payroll. You can do a lot in 3 months (unwind, learning, networking etc).
There’s few months worth of severance as well, should be enough to support during job hunting.
Don’t forget to claim state unemployment as well, it’s your money!
- You will lose all engineering access (git, eng webpages etc) the next day, only webex team and e-mail remains.
However, your data in your laptop will stay as is.
If you’re a nice guy, you will copy your current work to your laptop before the access is gone, so you can do TOI to your team member.
- IT will remote install file monitoring app to your laptop on the same day you get LR notifications.
Legal will get notified if you copy data out of your laptop via USB, feel like a damn men in black vibe.
- Reach out to your co workers, previous managers etc … sometimes they can connect you with opportunities internal or external.
Or maybe just offer simple encouragement which is always nice.
- You will get your “earned” bonus, it’s mentioned explicitly in your LR package. In my case, I got 100% personal performance factor. Factor is perhaps depend team by team.
But I don’t think you will ever get $0.
- You will also lose access to your building / cube lol.
They will give you one time access (time of your choosing) to access your cube and pack up your belongings.
Or you can ask then to pack it and send it over to your home address.
Monitor keyboards dock etc belongs to you and they state that explicitly.