Recently had the privilege to interview a recruiter who worked at 3/5 FAANGs the other day. Wanted to pass along her wisdom. The following was her response to "what companies do you like to see on a resume? " : "I like to see: - Ride share apps (uber/Lyft/didi/grab/etc) - Food delivery apps (DoorDash/grubhub/ubereats/instacart) - Streaming apps (twitch/hulu/youtube/Spotify/pandora/comcast/etc) - Social media (discord/Pinterest/Reddit lol/Snap/TikTok/twitter/WhatsApp/WeChat/quora) - Airbnb or really any apps. Fintech is good like the Robinhoods/Stripes/Citadels. Depending on what I’m looking for, usually large scale distributed systems, bigger companies like: oracle, dell EMC, vmware, netapp, smaller companies like pure storage, snowflake, databricks, confluent. Certain teams in eBay, walmart. " Notice how she organizes companies based on product type and scale (and not arbitrary "prestige") I also asked "What teams are best to work on?" "I look for teams that are focused on high-throughput low latency systems or recommendation systems, like ads, platform, search. Not so much teams working on internal systems or tools." In other words, if you wanna get on FAANG'S radar you want to work at one of the above companies (or similar) on a external facing team at scale
He cannot even distinguish HF and FinTech. You should pass him
Based on my personal experience, it doesn't matter *where* you worked, but *what* you worked on. Going to what she said, building high scale systems will get you a shot.
I agree. Before I asked the question I believed the secret to getting a recruiters attention was working at a name brand tech company. What I've realized is that it's more nuanced than that. FAANG is looking for engineers who have worked on similar projects at similar scale. Working at a company/team that is known for doing that is what catches the recruiters eye.
How do you communicate that to a recruiter though? Just saw you built high scale systems? Assuming recruiters aren’t technical.
FAANGs barring Netflix give almost everyone an opportunity to interview with them, regardless of their past/current company.
I feel like that's 2019-2022 and only Google and Amazon. Current market is vastly different
It included meta and apple, too, although apple hiring is not as organized as other companies. The companies might have gotten selective since the number of recruiters went down, and far fewer positions are open right now.
Tell me to not roll my eyes when Op post is all about rolling eyes 🙄
Yeah I figured I was throwing pearls before swine here. Apparently blind is too good for useful info.
Tell me Op is privileged and not humbled without telling me Op is very privileged and non humbled
Currently Interviewing few people who are not in the above list of companies (nor other faang) So its BS.
It's not exhaustive list. It's just verbetim what she said. Similar companies/teams do fine. It's all about the scale and product type. That's the point of the post
How about consulting firms?
I have seen Google emphasized from recruiters passing me resumes, rarely the other FAANGs unless it's directly relevant (like amazon for a cloud role)
Google employees are trash. Their reputation has dwindled over the last decade. Xoogler myself. Left to break out of the stigma.
How about Azure/AWS?
OP is talking about getting into Faangs from outside
Nah, just work at any tier 4+ company and you're good.
Looks like you got that covered 😉
Every company that's mentioned in the post is just as hard, if not harder to get into than FANG. Pay is probably on a similar range as well for most junior and mid-level engineers.
Let me know if you guys have other questions, I can definitely reach out again and ask them
Can you ask about TVCs at FAANG companies ? What do they like to see on their resume or do they even look at TVCs ?
What’s a tvc?