"A decent company will have your future colleagues heavily involved in the hiring process" Of course, but you still have to get to them first as no sane compan

"A decent company will have your future colleagues heavily involved in the hiring process" Of course, but you still have to get to them first as no sane company makes their engineers to do 1st round CV screening (especially for publicly announced positions where tens or hundreds of CVs are applied). From my personal experience, technical interview with an engineer is usually only on 2nd/3rd round, so we are back to square 1. Yes, I know the best positions are filled through networking and recommendations, but that's not an option when you live outside of tech bubbles.