Any Unemployed Software Engineers in Silicon Valley

I am looking for a few folks, who are in same boat as me, to share stories, ideas, and advice. I have 20+ years of experience and lost my job in July and have been activiely interviewing since then. I have solved around 300 leet code problems over last one year or so + solved 200 more leetcode style problems outside of leetcode.

So far I have interviewed with around 20 companies. I have passed to onsite in most cases. In a few cases, I was dropped after phone interview even though I successfully completed the phone interview. I figured this was becuase I didn't fit the profile of employees that the company was looking for.

I am still getting lot of interviews and able to easily move to the onsite stage, but having difficultly converting onsite interviews into offers. So far I have done 9 onsite, but no offers yet. I am waiting for two companies to respond back with their decision after onsite and doing another onsite early next week.

After three months of constant interviewing, I am feeling interview fatigue and stress of being unemployed. I am planning to take a short break from interviewing next week to regroup by energies before starting to interview again.

If you are unemployed software engineer in Silicon Valley, I would love to connect to share ideas and advice, what is working in job search and what is not, etc.

UPDATE (Nov 1, 2020)
I got one offer (TC 330K) and in process of finalizing another offer (TC 420K). I did 12 onsite interviews over a period of 3 months.

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