Adding to other observations here: You got meetings with SVPs at Dell, Cisco, etc. Those are *really high positions* that you reached out to directly. They h

Adding to other observations here: You got meetings with SVPs at Dell, Cisco, etc. Those are *really high positions* that you reached out to directly. They have hundreds of people under them, possibly over a thousand. They have problems upon problems to deal with. They won't have any time for a single new hire, let alone someone who is still at the early stage of their career. People who've worked in plum tech jobs for 20 years still think twice before reaching out to an SVP directly. Set your sights lower.