Right now is not a good time to judge your career pathing plan. It’s literally the easiest time to get a job in computing in modern history, which includes the first web boom. It’s like judging your investment strategy right now. That said if your plan is working, great! I wouldn’t spend much time on indeed if it were me but good for you.
Note: all of my jobs ever have come from networks and I went to the wrong state school and have never worked for Google.
Seems like networks had nothing to do with your job to me...
Nope I used more than one job search method.
It was Advertised. They paid for an advert. To be advertised to strangers.
It might as well have been a Facebook ad or a Google search ad, for all that networks had to do with it.
> Your in person network for the final conversion
Yes references. That's a bit different though.
So I've failed by the bar set in your comment, but for some reason I don't feel that way, because there are plenty of jobs out there on job boards. I got 1 job through my network (an ex boss) and it wasn't any worse or better than the others. I've got a really good job now.
I can see where networking shines, and it's where you went to a top university, made lots of friends - especially in the same course and kept tabs with them since and a lot of them have gone to work for Google (etc.) or cool startups and now you can find an easier way in, which is fair enough.
Note: I'm not in the USA