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This is not anywhere close to true. Have you built a bootstrapped startup from scratch and negotiated an acquisition? It's far, far harder than practicing a few
by kurbin 5y ago
This is not anywhere close to true. Have you built a bootstrapped startup from scratch and negotiated an acquisition? It's far, far harder than practicing a few leetcode Facebook problems and getting a referral.
- oblio 5y agoYou don't even need the referral. Unless your CV only has farming experience or something :-)
- scarface74 5y agoI concur. My sparse LinkedIn profile shows decades of doing CRUD work for no name companies and I have had recruiters from most of the major tech companies reach out to me. No I couldn’t pass any DS&A tech screen without a lot of preparation. Even now that I work at one of the Big 5 tech companies, I clearly state that my role is not officially development, I still have recruiters reach out to me from FB for development positions.
- thayne 5y agoThere is a big difference between getting recruited and actually getting a job offer.
- oblio 5y agoYeah, but the discussion was about referrals. Referrals are for getting your foot in the door. You don't generally need them for FAANG. You just need a half decent CV. The hard part is passing the interviews, but referrals don't help with that, from what I know.
- tolbish 5y agoAn actual referral for an "industry rockstar" would catapult them past the first few rounds of interviewing.
- oblio 5y agoAnd referrals for top management do the same. Why are we talking about something applicable to maybe 0.00001% of candidates out there?
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- tolbish 5y agoBecause far up the comment tree, referrals were confused with "some recruiter said I should interview for a job".
- scarface74 5y agoThere was no “confusion”. The only purpose of a referral is to get the interview. If an internal recruiter reached out to you, a referral isn’t necessary. Either way you still have to go through the same loop. Yes, I “work for a FAANG” like many others do here.
- scarface74 5y agoThe discussion was about the need for referrals. But isn’t that what I just said? No I couldn’t pass any DS&A tech screen without a lot of preparation.
- fatnoah 5y agoAgree 100%. I've bootstrapped, I've been acquired, and I've gone through the FB/G/etc. interview processes. Going through those interviews took a few weeks of light prep, whereas bootstrapping to acquisition was a multi-year slog. Just the due diligence portion of the acquisition too many, many, many times the effort of job interviewing.
- N1H1L 5y agoYep. Bootstrapping a startup is hard. FAANG interviews are not even close.
- whymauri 5y agoEven just the diligence behind a potential acquisition (stated 'win' condition) is orders of magnitude more stressful than reviewing DFS, lol.