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I've actually never gotten a job via my network (besides an "internship" driving a forklift in a warehouse), and have worked at startups and big tech companies

I've actually never gotten a job via my network (besides an "internship" driving a forklift in a warehouse), and have worked at startups and big tech companies just from applying on the website. I wouldn't discount it!

scarface_74 3y ago
My work history 1. I got the job based on a previous internship that itself was based on talking to people in the career office in college. (1996) 2. I talked to someone at a local recruiting agency and went to the office and met them in person (1999) 3. I found an interesting looking job on CareerBuilder for a startup and reached out to the internal recruiter via email and we started having a discussion (2008) 4. When that company was folding, a couple of recruiters reached out to all of us and I was hired four days after I was laid off (2012) 5. I reached out to an in house recruiter on LinkedIn where the manager was looking to start a “tiger team” of experienced developers (2014) 6. I had plenty of recruiter i knew by now. I responded to every local legitimate recruiter who reached out to me. I told them what type of job I was looking for (a tech lead position at a smaller company) and just waited for the right opportunity. I found it in 2016. 7. The same for my next job, I was looking to work for a company that was doing new “cloud initiatives. I asked all of my recruiting contacts to be on the lookout. The recruiter I met in 2012 that I had stayed in contact with knew a guy who was the newly minted CTO of a startup that was trying to bring development in house and be “cloud native”. Before they were using a contracting agency. (2018) 8. A recruiter from Amazon Retail reached out to me about a software development position. I really wasn’t interested in relocating, working as a software developer for any large company or ever being on call. I kept talking to her and she recommended I apply for a position at AWS ProServe. But even then, she shepherded me through the process and made sure my application got looked at by the right people. I didn’t just blindly hope for a keyword match (2020) And btw, in my entire career, I’ve done exactly two coding tests and both of those were FizzBuzz level sanity checks.
zeroonetwothree 3y ago
I’ve gotten jobs both ways. Ironically(?) the one I liked the best was when I applied randomly online and the one I hated the most was through my network.

scarface_74 3y ago

My work history 1. I got the job based on a previous internship that itself was based on talking to people in the career office in college. (1996) 2. I talked to someone at a local recruiting agency and went to the office and met them in person (1999) 3. I found an interesting looking job on CareerBuilder for a startup and reached out to the internal recruiter via email and we started having a discussion (2008) 4. When that company was folding, a couple of recruiters reached out to all of us and I was hired four days after I was laid off (2012) 5. I reached out to an in house recruiter on LinkedIn where the manager was looking to start a “tiger team” of experienced developers (2014) 6. I had plenty of recruiter i knew by now. I responded to every local legitimate recruiter who reached out to me. I told them what type of job I was looking for (a tech lead position at a smaller company) and just waited for the right opportunity. I found it in 2016. 7. The same for my next job, I was looking to work for a company that was doing new “cloud initiatives. I asked all of my recruiting contacts to be on the lookout. The recruiter I met in 2012 that I had stayed in contact with knew a guy who was the newly minted CTO of a startup that was trying to bring development in house and be “cloud native”. Before they were using a contracting agency. (2018) 8. A recruiter from Amazon Retail reached out to me about a software development position. I really wasn’t interested in relocating, working as a software developer for any large company or ever being on call. I kept talking to her and she recommended I apply for a position at AWS ProServe. But even then, she shepherded me through the process and made sure my application got looked at by the right people. I didn’t just blindly hope for a keyword match (2020) And btw, in my entire career, I’ve done exactly two coding tests and both of those were FizzBuzz level sanity checks.

zeroonetwothree 3y ago

I’ve gotten jobs both ways. Ironically(?) the one I liked the best was when I applied randomly online and the one I hated the most was through my network.