> My question to you, is what sort of companies let you skip the hoop jumps? Hard question as I did not apply to many, but the largest offer I had was a compan

> My question to you, is what sort of companies let you skip the hoop jumps? Hard question as I did not apply to many, but the largest offer I had was a company with some 150k+ people and I could just go in and start. I knew the CTO from a project in another company (he was the CTO there and we were contractors); the project failed but we kept in touch. I find (my prejudice) that kind of scale very much not interesting to work for; I like companies < 500 people. For Google/Netflix(/Facebook/...) I definitely cannot answer as I never wanted to work for those companies and my network is local so I am nothing to them. In working for a very-large-company I think I would only consider microsoft research as I really love what they are doing [0] (and would work there almost for free), but like said, my network is far more local. [0] https://www.rise4fun.com/ https://www.rise4fun.com/