I’ve applied to 20+ nvidia sr software engineer jobs since february of last year and every single one had an internal manager referral (former colleague at anot

I’ve applied to 20+ nvidia sr software engineer jobs since february of last year and every single one had an internal manager referral (former colleague at another company). I got 3 interviews. The hiring managers were nice, but they just had so many other applicants to choose from that I never made it past the first interview.