I've gotten my last two offers -- as a senior engineer at Dropbox and as an engineer at a top-end quantitative trading firm -- from cold resume submission witho

I've gotten my last two offers -- as a senior engineer at Dropbox and as an engineer at a top-end quantitative trading firm -- from cold resume submission without any networking. I also got interviews in this last round from both Jane Street and Hudson River Trading based purely on a cold resume submission. Admittedly, my resume is excellent, but jobs can absolutely happen from just sending in an application and a resume. Even really good, high-paying jobs.