Please share your strategy how you managed to contact technical recruiters from different companies , get interviews organized at same time, followed by having offers at same time for better negotiation on TC?
I applied at the same time and once I got interviews at one company, I kept the other informed of the progress with slight more urgency. For instance, at final round of interviews, I told them I was anticipating an offer soon. If they like you they will expedite your process. Last time I had 3 offers at the same time. They were all relatively in the same range so you get the added benefit of knowing that you werenāt low-balled too bad (except the one FAANG was in range, wish I had been on Blind back then). That being said, of 4 job changes I only received multiple offers twice. Itās pretty difficult to time.
Apply and interview
I applied to 8 places within a few weeks and grouped the first round all within 2 weeks of each other. I then did the same for my second round but within 1 week. Once I was anticipating an offer I used that to hurry up the others. I went from 1st round fb interview to an offer in 1 week by saying I had an upcoming offer. During the whole process I kept all the recruiters updated on my status. I ended up with 2 offers. 2 other offers were canceled due to covid, and the 4 others I postponed 2nd round since I didn't want them as much.
Strategy?
Get warm intros. Not stupid Blind referrals but find a way to talk to an actual acquaintance-of-an-acquaintance who works there and buy them a coffee (or have a Zoom call). Learn about the open role(s) and talk candidly about what you want, then hopefully they will get you the right intro. After all, they probably get a referral bonus. Itās a lot of work (and a lot of coffee) but itās the best way to get your foot in the door at pretty much any company.
How do you do this in a pandemic tho. I also donāt think people will have time or energy for zoom calls lol. I think what works best is just straight up message multiple college alumni who work there. In hundreds words or less explain your experiences etc and be like ācould you help me start the interview processā this worked for me and lot of people gave me referrals
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I did this last year Had 5 invites made sure to schedule everything within two weeks , came out the other side with 3 concrete offers , 1 no and one that I was less interested as it was early Keeping recruiters informed and pointing timelines of decisions really helped managing timelines. I was really open with them so they will work around the timelines I wanted. Ended up getting the 3 concrete offers in hand within 3-4 days difference if each other.
Good job! But why you still in amazon?
š amzn was the move I came from a smaller company - got top offer for my level (30k more than levels.fyi for my region and more than most blind offers at my level) and to work in a product I love Other options came at about the same or lower $$$ and either riskier or pre-ipo I did want fb but I messed up one of the onsites (bad chemistry with hostile interviewer) And google didnāt have a team match for a position I want even though I passed.
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I have done interview with 9 companies in past 1 month. Got 9 onsites all, got offered from 8, got rejected by Databricks. However, the companies I applied are not FAANG level at all, so not an achievement at all.
Hey! Itās an achievement! Congratulations! š¾š Sitting through 9 companies in a month is almost 2 weeks of time. Thatās a lot of commitment š
Thanks VMware, but they are honestly not the target that Iām aiming at, and the best offers I get are merely from apple, Tiktok and pure storage
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I was preparing for interviews early 2020 with the following plan of giving interviews in a batch of companies: My first batch was Fb, Amazon, Snap, and Apple with a target of finishing them by May. My second batch was going to be Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Uber for June My third batch was going to be other companies like Salesforce, Nvidia, and maybe a couple more pre-ipo start ups later. No personal preference on why I batched like this. You can batch them as per your preference. Get the general idea of how these companies give decisions. I learned that Fb gives decision in 1-2 weeks, Amazon 5 days SLA, Snap can verbally rollout an offer within 24 hours (as told by my recruiter). I didnāt know much about Apple. So with that in mind, I had my desired ādecision weekā as 2nd week of May from all the companies of my first batch. I couldnāt schedule Apple to my preferred dates because they were pretty slow in my case. I had my Fb & Amazon Verbal offer by the difference of an hour (didnāt plan for this precision, got lucky). Snap had backed off because they didnāt have openings when I scheduled my virtual onsite interview dates, but it would have come out on the same day as Fb, Amazon. I was able to negotiate between Fb & Amazon. Apple was late in the game (I knew my other offers so I couldnāt take it seriously).
Did amz even compete with fb? From what I hear the disparity is too big.
Itās upto you how you want to give interviews. Some folks prefer to give interviews in smaller companies for warm up. I didnāt do that because in my case I would have gotten that āinterview fatigueā. And if I had cracked smaller companies, I would have mentally signed up for them and not appear the rest for a decent increase in pay. Didnāt want to do that. š