Re:The software industry's greatest sin: hiring
by fossuser on Friday April 10, 2020 @01:31PM
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Maybe things have changed then (or you went to a highly selective brand name school in which case it’s easy).
I went to RPI which isn’t a bad place, but isn’t MIT. I had a good gpa and decent projects but got ignored or instant rejections from Google and Facebook, I was able to get other interviews (Twitter, Palantir) and after working at a famous company now it’s easy to get interviews, but there’s a randomness to it.
If you don’t have a brand name school or don’t know someone it’s still difficult. Not the fault of the companies really, there are just too many applicants.
Since I was in school there are more companies tackling this like triple byte so maybe it’s better now?
I just went to the jobs page and clicked the "I'd like a job please" button. And what do you know, a recruiter contacted me a few days later to setup an interview.
I think people underestimate how desperate big tech companies are for warm bodies right now. It's not that hard to get an interview.