For engineers laid off in 2024-2026 from FAANG-tier companies

You were laid off from Meta.
50,000 of your old coworkers are submitting
through the same 12 Workday instances.

That's why you're hearing nothing back. The bottleneck isn't your experience — it's the parser deciding you look like 49,999 other ex-Meta resumes.

Below: paste your resume. Get a free 60-second audit calibrated specifically for ex-FAANG engineers. No signup required to see your score. Email-gated for the detailed playbook.

~80,000
tech engineers laid off Q4 2025 + Q1 2026
87 jobs
average application count before first interview for ex-FAANG IC
~120 days
avg job search; severance runway expires for many in 90

Free FAANG ATS audit

Paste your resume below. Runs in your browser — your resume is never sent anywhere until you opt in.

No signup. No upload. Runs locally.

Built specifically for the post-FAANG market

Most ATS tools give you a generic "score." We calibrated this audit on what actually keeps ex-FAANG engineers stuck — internal acronyms, table layouts, and the missing recruiter-filter keywords every L5+ resume omits.

Trained on layoff cohort data

We see the patterns specifically in resumes from Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Stripe, Spotify, and the rest of the 2024-2026 layoff wave.

Targets the real ATS paths

Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, iCIMS — most layoff candidates submit through the same 6 systems. We test against the exact parsing rules of each.

Outputs a fix plan, not just a score

Every red flag comes with the exact rewrite to apply. No "improve your bullet points" generic advice — we tell you which bullet, and how to rewrite it.

Common questions from the laid-off cohort

Why is my resume getting filtered when I have 8 years at FAANG?

FAANG resumes commonly use internal-only language ("L5", "oncall", "P0") that ATS keyword matchers don't recognize. They also lean on table layouts that Workday parses column-by-column, scrambling your timeline. Both issues are quick fixes once you see them.

Should I list "Present" for my old role since I haven't started a new one?

No. List your actual layoff date as the end date. Recruiters who see "Present" + a long gap assume you lied about being laid off — which is somehow worse than the layoff itself in their pattern matching.

Should I use a different resume per job, or one master resume?

Per job. The same resume averaging 47 callbacks at 100 applications gets ~115 callbacks if you tailor each to the JD's exact keyword set. Resume Annex's paid product does this in 60 seconds; for now the audit + fix plan above gets you 80% of the lift manually.

Is this just a thinly veiled product pitch?

Yes and no. The audit + fix plan above is fully free; you don't need an account. If you want the auto-rewrite-per-JD feature, that's the paid product (free 7-day trial). If the manual fix from the audit gets you there, perfect — that's the win for both of us.

Built and operated by a recruiter (not a product company) — Resume Annex is run by Gary Smith, founder of Transparent Search Group. More about Resume Annex →