Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode

Re:Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing ... by angarg12 on Thursday August 17, 2023 @11:43AM (#37163409)

I'm a Machine Learning Engineer with 5+ years of experience at FAANG. I have designed and built real time ML systems that support millions of QPS with < 10 ms latency. I also have a variety of other skills.

And yet I can't escape leetcode interviews. In fact I recently sent a spree of CVs and got automated rejection emails for most of them.

I don't buy your take.

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Re:Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing ... by thereisnojesus on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:30PM (#37164212)

This is privilege if you think 3 CVs is a lot. I applied for 100 yesterday.

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Re:Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing ... by FirmwareBurner on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:43PM (#37164438)

I feel like 100/day is swinging the pendulum in the opposite direction. I apply like 3-5/week and I feel like that's a lot. Granted I don't live in a tech hub so my options are limited but 100/day feels like you're just spamming aimlessly and wasting your energy on quantity instead of quality.

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Re:Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing ... by wonderwonder on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:56PM (#37164659)

OP said spree, not 3

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Re:Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing ... by HeyLaughingBoy on Thursday August 17, 2023 @01:39PM (#37165372)

At 100 resumes/day it's hard to believe that you're optimizing them for the position or for that matter, doing anything other than shotgunning.

You're far more likely to get 100 rejections doing this than if you research a handful of the positions and send targeted resumes to those.

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