You guys ever get jobs from applying?
99% of my interviews are from recruiters reaching out, applying and referrals are useless imo
I've gotten jobs from just applying but I'm in a niche area (not engineering) that sees much lower volume of applicants
Yeah for swe I get 1-2 interviews a week but only from recruiters
All the jobs I've gotten was me directly applying on the company website and I've never used referrals.
Damn thats crazy. Not even recruiters reaching out?
They do. I've interviewed with Apple, Meta and Amazon by them reaching out first, but I didn't pass the final rounds.
Every job I’ve gotten was from a cold application on the careers site
Same
I've got all my calls from applying. During the 2021 era, my application to call ratio was >50%, and even this year, I got calls from ~15% of my applications, which I consider not that bad. Talking about Tier 1-3 companies. 5yoe, all as frontend engineer.
Either applying to an ad or through connections. I've had recruiters come to me, but so far (30+ years) I've never had one come with anything good. I can think of two times that I had a recruiter come with something that was actually a reasonable fit, but in the first case the company was a shitshow and the other was a non-starter relocation. 99 times out of a 100, it's something completely ridiculous relative to my level or background, like most of these "recruiters" have almost no understanding of the industry they recruit for.
You get a job from those 99% of interviews?
Yes multiple but hate the one I picked so looking to change ASAP Applying doesn't help, getting like 1-2 interviews a week from recruiter reach outs. Wanna double thay