How did you land your current job?
Curious to know how effective it is on simply applying to a ton of postings via company websites and being constantly rejected by algorithms. How many of you got hired by a referral or chasing down recruiters? I’d like to land a new gig within FAANG, Salesforce, Splunk! #tech #product #productmanager YOE: 7 TC: $140k
it's both hard work and luck. During initial days 12 years ago used to apply to tons of job on company websites and got lucky and got a hand full of calls and worked at couple of FANGM . Then started getting hit by recruiters on LinkedIn then it was all through recruiters
Yes, definitely a lot of hard work and luck! Keeping my fingers crossed. I’ve been interviewing so far but so far no luck yet. My background so far has been at Goldman Sachs and Southwest Airlines, so thinking it would be harder for me since I’m out of industry (although I work in technology)
TC and YOE or GTFO and no job
I’m new to this app. So I’m guessing you’re asking for my TC & YOE?
As opposed to what? Asking you whether you need this person's TC & YOE?
Happy to provide Splunk referrals! Splunk offers: Crazy good TC Fantastic WLB Mobile first workplace Yearly refreshers 3 year vest schedule
Hi. Could I reach out to your for a Splunk referral as well? Would love to work there!
Are there SWE roles for 1 yoe (but no relevant exp.) ?
LinkedIn is the only way I’ve reached carrier progress. Once I’ve posted my profile (it was the time when LinkedIn main language was DE), got interviews outside my country, landed on a California offer. Since then I always have a few active recruiter connections with FAANGMULA.
I lied on my resumes for my first 2 internships and then my first job. But now I have a legit job from legit experience
Dude getting a call is just 10% . Clearing it is 90%
Recruiter reached out to me 😊
I’ve only ever applied online and have had no issue hearing back, at least 80% of applications have resulted in a recruiter chat at least.
Cuz you uber brah
What is your first job? Where did you graduate from? Were you in the proximity of the jobs ?
I had no intention of leaving my last role. I was on a path to make director title within a year, despite only having 5 YOE. And my last company was not small. But a recruiter for FB reached out. Didn’t take it seriously. Did zero prep for screening interview. Completely knocked it out and then the recruiter started talking TC numbers. It tripled what I was currently making even though it was a step down (IC5) from my current level (Manager over a team of 5). Started prepping like crazy. My first interviewer was inexperienced and I was really nervous. I got off on the wrong foot and they had decided within minutes they didn’t like me. The remaining interviews went great. Feedback was mixed, as expected, with one no the remaining all being a strong yes. I got downleveled to an IC4. But comp was still more than double what I was making, even after they lowballed me due to coming from an industry that historically pays low. So I took it. Now I’m just working on the mental aspect of going from having org impact to having to gain my managers trust to do much outside of an SQL query. It hurts, but the $$ is good.
Great story, thanks for sharing! I’m also encountering a serious micromanagement issue with management. But I’m definitely not getting paid enough to shrug it off. I have a call with a contact at Facebook to see where I would be a good fit. They explicitly mentioned it’s not an interview but having it since I had an employee referral. Hopefully that conversation lands me somewhere!
0 prep for phone screen? Were you already pretty good at LC style questions?
I replied to a few linkedin invites, took two interviews, got two job offers and took one.
That’s awesome! Any tips you’d like to share on how your LinkedIn profile presented? Maybe I need to work on my profile a bit
I'd like some info on this too, please