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I recently started as a data scientist at a fairly large tech company in Palo Alto, and figured I’d share the process since my background was pretty nontraditional. I was working as a financial analyst for the government, so I definitely didn't have the typical CS/ML background.…

I was working at a small kids tech smartphone startup after being at another agency and I was tired of the incredibly low salary, virtually no parental leave, and bad company culture. Many coworkers were nice and good to work with but leadership was a bit of a nightmare like many…

This came in the midst of my Google loop. I was still waiting on their feedback when a Microsoft recruiter reached out. The timing was challenging since it coincided with suuuuper heavy sprint cycles at work, but I managed to carve out the necessary time. The recruiter call was a…

Five months ago I got fed up with the crap culture at Amazon (needs a separate post) and decided to start working on my game plan for interviews. Now, I have three offers - Expedia is travel not in the same league I know. No trolls please. My goal was to land a PM role at Google.…

Based in Dublin, Ireland. Left Facebook for Microsoft in December 2020. I had a friend refer me to Amazon, applied to MS and Bloomberg myself. Applied to a bunch of places around end of August/ early September: \- Microsoft (offer) \- Amazon (offer) \- Bloomberg (offer) \- Google…

I got laid off from Meta and then a few other companies. I finally hit kind of rock bottom after working for a disastrously failing startup and had to part ways. I spent 2 months heavily focused on Linkedin, applying to jobs, trying to reach out to people I know. The one thing th…

I graduated with a CS degree in 2019 and worked as a software engineer for 2 years before transitioning to PM at a mid-sized tech company. Been doing PM work for 3 years now, mostly in B2B SaaS. Applied to Google in December, got the offer last week. Total process took about 2.5…

Thought I'd share some positive news! Just accepted an offer for a Senior Product Designer, and here are some things that I learned, in hopes that it might help other folks in the job market: Total search: 6 months From application → offer: 50 days Total Applications: 32 (15 refe…