FB has been one that is tough to crack. Over the years, I've been randomly called by a recruiter for a strategy role. It seems not doing anything seems to have yielded better results vs actively trying applying. What do you think was your key to success? Adding recruiters, managers on LinkedIn? Referrals? How did you prepare for the interview process? TC $160K 11 YOE
Applied online and heard back the next day. Was very surprised. I'm in a data role tho, so that's kinda tech.
Same story here
Had a recruiter reach out to me on linkedin. YOE 0
Reached out to on LinkedIn
Recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn. I have several friends who go jobs here from my referrals, but I had to meet the recruiter to talk them up. Feels like they aim to hire fresh college kids then train them up for IC roles, and hire managers from God knows where.
What kind of strategy role are you after?
There's currently a few open that i think I'd be a good fit for on the product side. Seems like a lot of the folks on this thread have come in straight from school so not sure their experiences are applicable to mine.
Product Strategy Manager - Ads & Business Platform (Menlo Park)
Am friends with a recruiter who works with the team I’m on. He passed my resume to the hiring manager and agreed to not take a commission.
Joining the "recruiter reached out on LinkedIn" crowd
Referrals work better. But of course not guaranteed.
Every discipline has hiring managers. If you’re reasonably tenured (and you are) you can network your way to a few of them. After that, they just keep you in mind for future roles. I keep in touch with hiring managers at FB, G, Airbnb etc. - companies I’d be comfortable working for who also hire in my field. I would start networking.
Virtually or in person? I'm not in California
When I was there a few years ago it was simply because someone on their design team came across my Behance portfolio.
Wow so you did good work but the mechanism in which they found you was for the most part random
I think the way to think about hyper competitive companies is that there's a lot of randomness involved. Yes, their internal recruiters are trying to find good candidates, but their search isn't exactly going to be exhaustive. Being competitive means you have a line of people out the door, and, frankly, lots of people who would execute the job perfectly competently get turned away because as long as there's that queue of incoming the opportunity cost to that false negative is probably pretty low.