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I've heard multiple times of the hiring practice of "throw to garbage bin every resume without past stint at GFA" from a few of my friends. Most of them worked
by baybal2 5y ago
I've heard multiple times of the hiring practice of "throw to garbage bin every resume without past stint at GFA" from a few of my friends.
Most of them worked companies like banks, and other big name non-tech companies.
The number of people with past experience in big dotcoms now is big enough that any mid-sized company can expect to get a few resumes from such for each position.
It's very obvious a sign of risk averse, and lazy recruiters, but what you can do? No doubt, it works for them, professionally.
It makes me think whether chasing a big dotcom name onto the resume, at any cost, and regardless of the merit of position worth it from the job security standpoint.
A dotcom name on the resume really opens you a lot of doors, you will not get yourself in otherwise. A stone cold truth.
- saagarjha 5y agoI’m not sure if you realized this while typing it, but you may wish to reconsider that acronym.
- baybal2 5y agoDo we really have to fell that low on HN to obsess over the slang of weird internet boards? Edited that.
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- Jenk 5y agoOk I got nothing.. I assume you are referring to GFA - what evil organisation could it be mistaken for? I could only get results for Global Furniture Alliance, Ghana Football Association, (The) Good Friday Agreement, and Gospel For Asia, and many other orgs that don't seem to be controversial enough to warrant a warning. The tension is too much to bear, please enlighten me :)
- zerr 5y agoOne way to look at it from the FANG PoV: we don't know how good engineers they are but at least we know they can handle leetcode grind and they are most likely young (i.e. had a desperation and willingness to allocate time for leetcode preps) - so we throw them 500K total comps and hope to retrain/FANG-ify them. I don't think many small/mid-sized shops can afford this.
- nivenkos 5y agoThe article is about Europe. My total comp as an L5 at Amazon was about $75k, maybe up to $90k if you count the slowly vesting RSUs.
- zerr 5y agoFacebook in London pays GBP 300K-500K+ though.
- bitL 5y ago...to managers
- nivenkos 5y agoGlassdoor says 86-110k GBP. Which is still pretty good for Europe.
- bitL 5y agoLook at levels.fyi, the highest paid E7 is around 250k GBP TC (i.e. base + bonus + shares) and there is one IC6 with 350k GBP TC. But basic devs are in the Glassdoor range, while London is as expensive as SFBA with a much worse weather. Basically a dead-end, like the whole EU right now (technologically finished without a single competitive company after the fall of Nokia).
- Jenk 5y agoI (London residing) find that quite hard to believe. Unless you mean TC which includes share-options "valued at" £200K+ (but likely will barely get £50k when vested after 5 years of active tenure.) A good salary for principal engineers in London is upto £120k, but can be from half that. There are exceptional cases of higher. Highest I have personal confirmation of is £150k (a friend.) Across all of engineering, the mean average salary at Google is £66k according to glassdoor, and that's known to be embellished.