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Re:What Working At Stripe Has Been Like by fossuser on Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:31PM (#24723597)
I think it's like most companies, really hard to get attention unless:

- You have a referral

- You went to MIT, Stanford, Caltech, CMU, Cal

- You're coming from FAANG or similar

The frontdoor is a waste of time.

Even with the above odds are against you, but at least you have someone to ask about progress/move things along for you.

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Re:What Working At Stripe Has Been Like by Ashanmaril on Thursday October 08, 2020 @05:52PM (#24724315)
I don't know about "most companies." Maybe most really big tech companies, places that are constantly getting crazy amounts of applications. And if you're living in a heavily populated city.

I live in a place with a fairly small population, and I got offers at 3/3 programming jobs I've applied for since my first in 2017.

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Re:What Working At Stripe Has Been Like by fossuser on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:01PM (#24724392)
Yeah - you're right.

I should have said 'most bay area software companies' and even that could probably be qualified by 'competitive' or 'famous'.

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