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There ARE firms that do not care who you know and just want highly skilled technical people. Not saying it's a majority, but they do exist.
by soup10 7y ago
There ARE firms that do not care who you know and just want highly skilled technical people. Not saying it's a majority, but they do exist.
- jonny383 7y agoAgreed, but if you continue to target these places as a worker, your career will never progress.
- eru 7y agoAll but one [1] of my jobs have come from cold applying or being approach by recruiters. That includes stints at Google, Bloomberg and Goldman; and offers from Facebook and some hedge funds etc. Connections can definitely help. No use contesting that. But they are not necessary. (Of course, perhaps in the counterfactual world where I had lots of connections, I would be a billionaire by now?) [1] The exception was my first job, where I had chatted to people in the hiring company at the International Conference on Functional Programming. Not much of an inside connection either---everyone can show up and attend a conference. They usually don't even check whether you have a ticket.