Have you ever applied to very large desirable companies / competetive positions? In most cases the system is completely broken. Here are a few genuine personal

Have you ever applied to very large desirable companies / competetive positions? In most cases the system is completely broken. Here are a few genuine personal anecdotes: Friend applies to Amazon via website. Finally gets reply 6 months down the line. Seriously - who has 6 months to wait around for a job. In that time he had 6 months to get actual experience and have an even better resume. Different friend gets summer internship at top legal firm, on leaving/ "you're hired" party, drunk HR manager admits they were very busy so the entire team decided to base internship interviews on the first sentence of the cover letter. While at working at bigcorp see numerous roles, including positions in senior management go unadvertised to people who are recommended for the position. More generally, there are a great deal of places that will bin your application if you didn't go to an Ivy, so how is someone from another country to even get a chance? So is this unfair on the other applicants? Probably. But mainly, the system is unfair on applicants.