Just sharing a personal datapoint with a lot of bias. Most of those are probably obvious. My target job range is 200+ base tc, senior/staff role. Probably wouldn’t share any further to avoid doxing myself. 1. I mostly applied only on linked in. Like 90%. I have daily alert set up filtering on the type of job I target. (Seniority, salary, location, posted in 24 hours) My experience is either hearing back immediately, hearing back after a month, or never. Personally I would say the ratio is about 5%, 1%, 94%. 2. There are companies with various openings. In my experience although the application pass rate is not very high, I was able to get interviews from most of the companies I target due to multiple attempts for different positions 3. For the companies I was unable to get interview from after multiple attempts, I consider those bullet dodged. Usually their headcount was tight based on investigation from blind. My interview process gets stuck in several companies as well due to the same reason. 4. Just leetcode. I didn’t initially and I missed some promising opportunities. In the end, I am usually able to solve 2 problems in 40 mins. Interview questions are mostly leetcode medium. The toughest problem I need to solve is probably template base LRU. 5. Interview bar is really high. I think companies now have the leverage to find the perfect fit and you probably need to be the top candidate to land the job. There are many interviews where I was tested on language/platform specific things (that probably takes a min to search online) and failed because I don’t use that language/platform in the day to day work. Personally this is where I failed the most. 6. Interview bar Cont. The coding rounds feel like leetcode contest, where you need to have working solution for 2 problems in 40 mins. For system rounds, besides being numbers game, it feels quite easy to get downleveled/soft rejected during system design for missing small things or having different pace with interviewers. 7. My weekly routine usually involves finding new leads and having a pipeline of interviews flowing. This helps manage my emotion in face of rejection. Interviewing IS a full time job in this environment. 8. Top paying companies at the current environment mostly left me with a strong hustle vibe with tough oncall and wlb. 9. The offers are much weaker than those of the same time last year. 10. Chatgpt is great for negotiating offers. Competing offer also helps
How you use ChatGpt for negotiating offers? 😵💫
Same question
Not even trying to mess with you, but have you tried asking chatgpt how it can help?
Regarding applications, did you apply via referral or applied normally?
Quit and found another in a week hehe
How much percentage of your interviews are fetched from REFERRALS?
F
Can you share more details on language/platform things you felt like you failed on?
^ This is the way. It's a pipeline. Treat is as such and you will be rewarded.
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