Do companies have general SWE roles for full time positions?

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BigNIntern

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BigNIntern
Apr 5, 2021 4 Comments

By generalist, I mean that the job posting doesn't require experience using any specific tech stack, language or framework. i.e. the way internships and new grad postings are - just requiring a general understanding of computer science and experience programming.

I'm a student/intern and I noticed that the vast majority of industry hire SWE job postings at tech companies require a specific skillset (i.e. 2 years of experience with Android dev). I've specifically sought out generalist job postings and have found them to be few and far between.

I imagine it must be so tedious to find the job that matches your specific skillset out of the hundreds of postings at companies like Google, FB, Twitter, etc. I've heard that Google has team matching and FB has bootcamp but then why do most of the postings I've seen seem like they're hiring for a specific team?

Or do you guys all just wait for recruiters to contact you rather than dig through job postings?

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  • Google
    owqJ68

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    owqJ68
    Yes they do.
    Apr 6, 2021 0
  • Dropbox
    Mfpr35

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    Mfpr35
    Big companies don't really care about specific tooling or languages. A lot of smaller shops do.

    (Disclaimer: Big places care for niches sometimes. Our kernel dev team at AWS really needed C, for obvious reasons.)
    Apr 6, 2021 0
  • New
    MLSWE

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    MLSWE
    Google doesn't give a shit in the interview what you know besides DS&A. You can pass an interview with leetcode and social skills. Team matching on the other hand seems more likely to weed you out. I'm going through the process now so I don't really know for sure but I hope to find out! Lots of mixed things about Google team match on blind but it seems generally true that generalists have a hard time.
    Apr 6, 2021 0
  • ANSYS
    LC_for_TC

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    LC LC get me TC, Benjamin Benjamin FAANG will give me
    LC_for_TC
    I have observed that most of the mid sized companies and startups look for specific skill set.
    Apr 5, 2021 0