Re:Working at a Startup vs. a Big Company
by krupan on Monday March 12, 2012 @12:34PM
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Make friends with other good engineers that are good interviewees. They will teach you some skills, and give personal references for you at their companies when you need a job. Personal references are going to get you the really good jobs, not applying online and going through the standard interview process.
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That's not really true. At good companies you're still going to need to interview, even with a strong reference.
You may not need to prove yourself technically as much as someone who comes in cold, but you always need to prove that you're a good cultural fit for the team.