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Re:This Resume Got Me an Interview by waoush on Thursday October 28, 2021 @12:31PM (#29027944)
Before I was a lead research engineer at CMU, I only rarely showed up on search results for FAANG companies. After a few months of being there, I started appearing rather frequently, and their recruiters would even argue with me that I should interview with them. A Facebook recruiter once told me they targeted me specifically because and I quote, "we know smart people are there". My favorite line of BS from them was when an Instagram recruiter tried to tell me, "everyone is our kind of candidate" LOL!

Being a lead research engineer isn't quite the same as being one of the PhD students. Although I did get quite a few people there who insisted I would be great for FAANG, it remains impossible to get in. Meh. I refuse to pay for leetcode premium and effectively cheese my way in.

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Re:This Resume Got Me an Interview by vmception on Saturday October 30, 2021 @07:21PM (#29053069)
> Meh. I refuse to pay for leetcode premium and effectively cheese my way in.

NMGI

If you aren't willing to do that, you wouldn't want to be around people extremely comfortable doing that, or a couple dozen other things viewed amorally.

Nobody in these companies values academia, and would not care about the distinction you mentioned there about a lead versus a PhD.

You're either in or you're not.

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