<story><title>Job Hunting in 2022</title><url>https://mhlakhani.com/blog/2023/01/tech-job-market/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>listenallyall</author><text>&amp;gt; After leaving Meta recently&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s all I needed to hear. Back in the day, the college you went to opened (or shut) doors to get interviews. And most people, who did not attend an Ivy League school or similar, rejected the concept as being anti-meritocratic.&lt;p&gt;However, today, it&amp;#x27;s the same thing -- just replace college with the company(ies) you list on your resume. A shitty programmer with a bad attitude from Meta, Google, etc. is far more likely to get opportunities than the best programmer in the entire insurance industry, or the person who wrote the greatest dry-cleaner management software. It&amp;#x27;s quite unfortunate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lr4444lr</author><text>This is true, but I think you have the reason misconstrued: it isn&amp;#x27;t that working at a FAANG on your resume provides a signal of greatness, it&amp;#x27;s that it guarantees a reliable floor competency. The recruiter is concerned with making her quota just as much as finding rock stars, if not more, and ex FAANG candidates probably stand a higher chance of making it through the interview funnel on average.</text></comment>
<story><title>Job Hunting in 2022</title><url>https://mhlakhani.com/blog/2023/01/tech-job-market/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>listenallyall</author><text>&amp;gt; After leaving Meta recently&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s all I needed to hear. Back in the day, the college you went to opened (or shut) doors to get interviews. And most people, who did not attend an Ivy League school or similar, rejected the concept as being anti-meritocratic.&lt;p&gt;However, today, it&amp;#x27;s the same thing -- just replace college with the company(ies) you list on your resume. A shitty programmer with a bad attitude from Meta, Google, etc. is far more likely to get opportunities than the best programmer in the entire insurance industry, or the person who wrote the greatest dry-cleaner management software. It&amp;#x27;s quite unfortunate.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dan-robertson</author><text>Would the person who wrote the best dry-cleaner management software do well at a company like Google? That is, I think a lot of the required skills there are ‘getting things done in a company the size of Google’ and having worked at Meta for a few years is perhaps a better signal for that than having made some great software. Likewise someone from Google may have a harder time in some startup where the structure is different and they don’t have all the fancy google tools or services. To be clear, I don’t want to imply that someone who makes great dry cleaner management software is a bad programmer or that they couldn’t be successful at Google or that Google look at the right signals and have good processes or that the startups who should have a different hiring strategy don’t copy google too much.</text></comment>