I was wondering if that was possible. I get ignored by startups at the same rate as corporate. I’m always told you have to be dragged through the mud for months of interviews before a company hires you, but I take it you didn’t have to do that?
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dandroid@dandroid.app 1 year ago
I’m a fairly high level software engineer at a massive tech company. I only graduated college less than 7 years ago. I climbed the ladder pretty fast at a startup, then moved over to a large corporation once my title was high enough.
I got the job I am currently at by literally just applying on their website. It took a couple of months for them to get back to me, but once I got that initial email, I had an interview within a day or two, and had a job offer after about a week.
That said, this was 2 years ago when companies were desperate to find engineers. Now the economy has taken a bad turn and many companies aren’t hiring engineers. I know mine isn’t right now. In fact, we laid some engineers off a few months back.
PlanetOfOrd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
dandroid@dandroid.app 1 year ago
I actually got my current job on my first attempt when I decided I wanted a new job. But at the startup, I interviewed with 4 or 5 large corporations before deciding to settle on a startup. I got in because I knew someone there.
I have also interviewed with Google many times and could never get a job there. I even passed all their damn interviews one of those times and they “couldn’t find a team that wanted me” so they said to try again next year, at which point I decided they can get fucked.
Maybe I just got extremely lucky with my current job. Who knows.
But yeah, I’m really glad I’m not looking for a job right now, because it’s really rough right now.
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 1 year ago
The real problem.
No amount of résumé writing is going get anyone a job if no jobs are available for them to fill.