Hello! This is my husband's account. We moved from Europe to Silicon Valley during the pandemic for him to get his dream job at Google. Moving to US has been a terrible experience during the pandemic. I got stuck in Europe by myself for more than 7 months, while my husband moved before me to Mountain View with one suitcase. Before that, we had started a cloud data analytics start-up and I had worked as a software engineer here and there and as an IT consultant specialized in data science. Unfortunately, I did not have a work permit, so after moving to US, I had to wait for it more than 2 years to get it. Now, I have my green card and I have been applying to jobs, but with little response rate. I only had the chance to interview as an engineering manager at OpenAI, Google, and Pinterest, but I did not manage to get in. The Google interviews were very difficult, especially system design ones, even though I did very good for the managerial and people interviews. At OpenAI, I wasn't able to get any feedback except for in between hire and not hire and they wanted strong hire. Meta canceled my interviews and all other large companies rejected my application or I could not get past the recruiter or hiring manager. I feel really ashamed, I worked very hard (leetcode, system design and behavioral), and also did extensive research for each company and their products. Honestly, I feel like a utter failure and I do not know what to do next. I applied to more than 130 jobs as an engineering manager and software engineer. I have so much passion for the field of engineering, cloud and data science and I do not want to quit. One VP of Engineering told me in an interview : "You could be a great software engineer, a great manager and a great product person, but you just did not have a chance and, btw, we are looking only for faang engineers". But what can I do about it? In the end, anything can help, a referral or a good word. TC: 0 (I feel awful about this)
Dm for Seagate
DM for Cisco
Dm for Microsoft
DM for Indeed, we are hiring across the board and have good WLB. sorry you are dealing with all that
DM for Amazon - thing with FAANG it is the hardest to get the first letter. Then it’s a cake walk.
You're not a failure. My friend was in a similar situation. What she did, she started coding fun projects and putting them on GitHub. She also got through a few online courses with certificates which can be displayed on LinkedIn and a coding school (she did not know how to code). Then she started a blog describing challenges she faced in the code and how to resolve them (no matter how simple). She applied to a few companies with referrals. Got hired in 3 months by Microsoft. Do not give up! Sometimes recruiters are not responsive for reasons independent of your resume if you apply without referrals. And don't worry. You're doing great. Imagine many years of experience instead, where you have tons of recruiters reaching out, but you can't get through due to anxiety issues.
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Have you tried targeting the less competitive companies just to get working? Nothing wrong with working in a non-tech company for a year or two while you continue to prep and try again.
Yes, I did. Those were worse than FAANG. I could not get past the recruiter.
I mean I’m not sure what companies they were but I dunno….I spent almost 10 years at some stodgy old places like a food company, logistics, insurance, consumer finance, wholesale office products. The recruiters were just pass through really. Never had any leetcode questions.