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I've been feeling a lot better about ignoring the countless recruiter contacts from the major tech companies the past couple years. On one hand I felt like I w

I've been feeling a lot better about ignoring the countless recruiter contacts from the major tech companies the past couple years. On one hand I felt like I was blowing major opportunities by not trying. But something just felt off when receiving so many sudden contacts from the largest of companies offering remote work, despite working in tech for over a decade and never hearing from them before.

cvhashim04 4y ago
Amazon recruiters especially were hounding most of the people I know working in tech.
- btbuildem 4y ago
  I didn't have LinkedIn and I took down my personal site, and they were still somehow finding me...
deltree7 4y ago
Getting recruiter email is the same as getting spam, everyone gets it. FANG still has a very low (<1%) success rate. So, don't assume that just because you got a recruiter email you'd be qualified to make it
- sidfthec 4y ago
  > FANG still has a very low (<1%) success rate. That's misleading. If you're able to get an interview, the success rate is much much higher than 1%. Can you imagine the wasted effort if it was 1%? And I assume if you're getting a recruiter to email you, you can usually get an interview. The 1% number I always see should include those who try to apply without recruiters emailing them.
  - deltree7 4y ago
    Once again recruiters emails almost everyone with a pulse. I met a guy on a train, who was working as a server, but just had some HTML on his resume. Like OP, most of these people wear that as some badge and can get into FANG anytime. Reality hits when they actually do reply and actually make it through phone screen
  - surgical_fire 4y ago
    > That's misleading. If you're able to get an interview, the success rate is much much higher than 1%. Nope. I was an interviewer for one of the FAANGs. My approval rating was around 2%. And I was one of the most lenient ones, at least in my org.
    - forgotusername6 4y ago
      You hired 1 in 50 people you interviewed? Did you have time for anything else? Were you not constantly angry at the rest of the hiring pipeline for wasting your time?
      - surgical_fire 4y ago
        I approved 1 in 50 I interviewed. The actual hire rate was lower than that. Maybe much lower. As I said, I was one of the most lenient ones. I did my best to approve, while still remaining within calibration and hiring guidelines. I interviewed people over the course of years. I was a developer, so interviewing was not my main role. And I never felt angry about having my time wasted. I work for money. As long as the company is paying me, what they want me to do during billable hours is at their discretion.
        whiplash451 4y ago
        That’s not completely true. Time spent interviewing has an opportunity cost in terms of learning new things or working on promotion-grade projects.
        surgical_fire 4y ago
        I didn't want to be promoted. I prefer getting raises by changing jobs. I studied new things on the side (very important for switching jobs).
      - Jensson 4y ago
        I think at Google about 10% passed phone screen, and then 10% of those passed onsite. It isn't that bad, interview one per week and you end up hiring about one person per three years (5 interviewers per onsite, so about 50 there and 100 phone screens). Most people interview 1-2 times per week there, and that was roughly how fast they grew, so the numbers adds up.
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FlyingSnake 4y ago
Ditto. Amazon, Meta, Google were contacting people all over LinkedIn etc and everyone had an interview prep kit that you needed to study in order to get in. The FOMO was real but it felt so weird and robotic. I rejected all of them. One meta recruiter was even offended when I said no to them. The extra € were not worth the hassle and I’m glad I didn’t going there FAANG rat race in the past 2 years.

cvhashim04 4y ago

Amazon recruiters especially were hounding most of the people I know working in tech.

btbuildem 4y ago
I didn't have LinkedIn and I took down my personal site, and they were still somehow finding me...

deltree7 4y ago

Getting recruiter email is the same as getting spam, everyone gets it. FANG still has a very low (<1%) success rate. So, don't assume that just because you got a recruiter email you'd be qualified to make it

sidfthec 4y ago
> FANG still has a very low (<1%) success rate. That's misleading. If you're able to get an interview, the success rate is much much higher than 1%. Can you imagine the wasted effort if it was 1%? And I assume if you're getting a recruiter to email you, you can usually get an interview. The 1% number I always see should include those who try to apply without recruiters emailing them.
- deltree7 4y ago
  Once again recruiters emails almost everyone with a pulse. I met a guy on a train, who was working as a server, but just had some HTML on his resume. Like OP, most of these people wear that as some badge and can get into FANG anytime. Reality hits when they actually do reply and actually make it through phone screen
- surgical_fire 4y ago
  > That's misleading. If you're able to get an interview, the success rate is much much higher than 1%. Nope. I was an interviewer for one of the FAANGs. My approval rating was around 2%. And I was one of the most lenient ones, at least in my org.
  - forgotusername6 4y ago
    You hired 1 in 50 people you interviewed? Did you have time for anything else? Were you not constantly angry at the rest of the hiring pipeline for wasting your time?
    - surgical_fire 4y ago
      I approved 1 in 50 I interviewed. The actual hire rate was lower than that. Maybe much lower. As I said, I was one of the most lenient ones. I did my best to approve, while still remaining within calibration and hiring guidelines. I interviewed people over the course of years. I was a developer, so interviewing was not my main role. And I never felt angry about having my time wasted. I work for money. As long as the company is paying me, what they want me to do during billable hours is at their discretion.
      - whiplash451 4y ago
        That’s not completely true. Time spent interviewing has an opportunity cost in terms of learning new things or working on promotion-grade projects.
        surgical_fire 4y ago
        I didn't want to be promoted. I prefer getting raises by changing jobs. I studied new things on the side (very important for switching jobs).
    - Jensson 4y ago
      I think at Google about 10% passed phone screen, and then 10% of those passed onsite. It isn't that bad, interview one per week and you end up hiring about one person per three years (5 interviewers per onsite, so about 50 there and 100 phone screens). Most people interview 1-2 times per week there, and that was roughly how fast they grew, so the numbers adds up.
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FlyingSnake 4y ago

Ditto. Amazon, Meta, Google were contacting people all over LinkedIn etc and everyone had an interview prep kit that you needed to study in order to get in. The FOMO was real but it felt so weird and robotic. I rejected all of them. One meta recruiter was even offended when I said no to them. The extra € were not worth the hassle and I’m glad I didn’t going there FAANG rat race in the past 2 years.