I have been studying hard since the past few months, I have cleared a few big companies and startups in the last 1.5 months. My aim to shift to a new company amd stay there for atleast 3 years. I just spent the entire holiday break studying, and then got rejected again from both google and fb. They won’t even give me a phone round. I haven’t interviewed there before also. It makes very bummed out, they don’t even care that I have other offers. Just kind of breaks your confidence. I think I maybe unhealthy obessed with them, reading so many posts about them here. But ... Kind of very generic question: is there something I can do to get an interview, apart from the usual referral or message recruiter? I will have to finalize something soon. TC: 130k YOE: 1.5
Hmm you can get feedback by sharing your resume anonymously.
Referral
That's weird... I mean seriously get some feedback on your resume from your friends, pay some bucks on rooftop slushie, or something like that.
Did now, let’s see again.
What’s wrong with your current job. Why not try to get good at it and progress. What org in Apple is this. As ICT3 you should make higher than this.
I can’t shift to ML role, I have tried, the manager doesn’t let me change. That boat has already sailed so just interviewing. I appreciate the suggestion though.
Are you an swe at Apple? Your TC seems to suggest otherwise.
Headcounts usually close up toward the end of the year. Try again now.
Trying! Thanks!
My colleague and I both around 2.5 yoe also did not get a chance to interview at g/fb. Recruiter reached out but then never followed up. Got interviews at Microsoft, amazon, etc This was last summer. Then in December a google sre recruiter reached out to me. So seems like many orgs and teams at g/fb are focused on 5+ yo. Sre might be the exception
Keep trying. Sometimes just bad luck. Today I had Google SWE phone interview.
Get a referral
4 referrals at fb and 2 at google. Nothing.
Wtf! That seems weird. I got my first FB referral the other day and they just reached out today