I’ve got a lot of connections on LinkedIn. Whenever people ask to connect with me, I mostly accept. Whenever I request to connect with people that don’t know me, they almost always accept, EXCEPT for people working for FAANG. If I direct message them, they don’t answer. Why? Suppose my motivation is only to get information about potential employment. What’s wrong with reaching out? Do FANNG employees really think they are so smart that others who reach out to them aren’t worthy of their time? If people reached out to me, and many times they have, about potential employment, passing their resumes, salary info, I always help. It doesn’t hurt me in any way to help a fellow human! I was just like them many years ago fresh out of school, in need of a job, and really appreciative of anyone who helped me. Since I can’t get my info through that channel, I’ll post my questions here: 1. What’s day to day work like for an analytics data scientist, not core ML, at FAANG? 2. What’s TC for levels 4/5, or PhD+10 YOE? 3. How to best prepare for interviews? TC ~ 142/25/20 ~ 187k PhD+10yoe. I’m reasonably versed in MySQL+Python/Numpy/Pandas/SAS JMP. Taken plenty of ML courses through MOOCS. Would love to work for FB/G. If you’re DS at FAANG, please chime in. Thank you! EDIT: Lots of comments about the first part of my post, but so far no answers to my 3 questions. If someone could provide accurate answers, it’d be awesome! Thanks fellows!
Don’t take it as an insult. A lot of faang people just ignore requests because they get a lot.
Fair enough.
I’ve never connected or responded to requests from people I don’t know on LinkedIn, even when I was a student, especially when they don’t come with any message or context for the request. Stop doing this. It is annoying.
Annoying? This lends more credence to my assessment of arrogance.
I rarely accept requests from randoms on LinkedIn. If it has a message, I'll respond if I have time. If it's about hiring, I'll respond if my team is actually hiring. This is not because I think "I'm better" than them or anything like it. I just think it devalues my network when it's littered with connections that aren't real. It's just my preference, to have a my "virtual" network reflect my real life network. I'm sure others have other preferences and will say that I'm missing out on expanding my network. That's fair, but my preference stands.
I am in HR at Amazon and I get daily a lot of requests from people asking to recommend them for a role. Also a ton of new connections requests. I have added people who send requests to me most of the time but I can’t recommend everybody when I don’t know them at all. Also I can’t respond to everybody. Also people think I am a recruiter and ask me to check their profile and recommend amazon roles to them and then recommend them for those roles. Really!!! HR and are recruiting are totally different job roles. Some of these people I have responded to once before that I am in HR not in recruiting, but they send me the same copy paste messages again. It gets frustrating really. I have stopped responding now.
Female engineer?
No, fortunately?/unfortunately? Not sure how to respond. Is this like one of those trick questions that Google asks potential candidates that’s so predictive of their future performance? I’m sorry, I fail to see the relevance of your question. But no, I’m a man. If you’re hinting that connection requests by females get more acceptance, I’d probably believe it. But I’ve sent requests to both female and male engineers. No response!
If it was a female, her connection requests would have long been accepted
How about Amazon? Hit me up
Thanks. Care to share TC for a DS role at Amazon for someone with my background assuming above average interview feedback?
I stopped accepting requests unless if they initiate some conversation through LinkedIn, I met the person before, or they're a 1st party recruiter of a company I'd be interested in working for.
I usually accept requests from people with same interests, but I mostly ignore requests from outside of North America.
I do understand your emotion, but expecting help from others is always considered a favor by the other party and not necessary that “they should” help. It’s an option. While you get frustrated and pissed at them for not responding to you, end of the day it’s your needs and they are not obligated to satisfy your feelings. Consider this, if some homeless guy is asking for money on the street, some people donate a dollar or two and most people ignore him. Is it considered fair on the homeless guy’s part to consider the people not giving him a dollar to be arrogant? I beg to disagree with the statement. P.S - I’m not comparing anyone in the example to the question, please don’t misunderstand my analogy
I’m most definitely not pissed at them, they have no obligation to answer me. Frustrated, maybe a tiny bit. Curious? Yes. But people here are providing good answers that make me understand better
Honestly I think it is fair to consider them arrogant. People who didn't money on luxury cars and alcohol, but can't donate to a homeless person for basic needs are human scum.
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You just get so many requests while at fang. My volume dropped a ton when I left
Hopefully it wasn’t those requests that drove you away! :)