>That’s just not how things work at FAANG Hey, it's me, the person who said that! >I read their blog post and they should be hired Yes, that's what happened.

>That’s just not how things work at FAANG Hey, it's me, the person who said that! >I read their blog post and they should be hired Yes, that's what happened. Obviously, it's not "I read your blog, sign this contract, and you're hired." The actual sequence of events the one time I said yes was: "Hey, I read your blog. I work for team X at company Y. Are you interested in working here?" "Yes" "OK, HR will contact you." A 20-minute call with HR, followed by an invitation to onsite team interviews. One day of interviews. Job offer. I have no idea what the internal process for that was, but I assume they have some referral program or something like that. >In 2005 (20 years ago), how many people blogged? I started blogging before the word "blogging" existed. I wrote my blogging software without knowing it was "blogging software."