shooting for FAANG/Quant/Unicorn but not getting interviews & p worried - any ideas?

[verbal epoch]

Ping lol hi

[flat hornet]

are u acing OAs

[hybrid moon]

Yeah my thought is bro should be getting OAs especially for quant

Your resume is pretty stacked bro I don’t see what you could possibly do better that would be disruptive

Maybe small marginal things

I think reaching out to recruiters might be the move

Also man if you don’t have a linked please get on that shit ASAP

[verbal epoch]

I do have a LinkedIn

[verbal epoch]

Yeah except palantir I got fucked by RNG 💀

But I think a lot of my OAs are auto

lol

Haven’t gotten stripe, google, etc

But yeah beyond that every OA I’ve done has been a perfect score

[verbal epoch]

Wdym by that

[hybrid moon]

Like figuring out their email and cold emailing them

[hybrid moon]

Whats RNG

[hybrid moon]

Yeah same here
I guess your best bet is to be so good you can pass the auto OAs

The auto OAs tend to be at least thrice as hard as regular OAs tho
That’s why they hang them out like candy
They’re meant to weed out 90% of applicants or more

[verbal epoch]

Just randomly got rly hard questions relative to my friends who did it lmao

[hybrid moon]

Specifically did you get a 600 on both GCA and ICF code signals? If not then obv you gotta keep grinding. But I’d be surprised if you got a perfect score on those and didn’t get to the next round

[verbal epoch]

Hm not sure what ICF is exactly

I got a 600 GCA tho

[verbal epoch]

But im targeting NYC specifically (with exceptions for the real big deal companies) since that’s my home so if its the Roblox thing I did get a perfect score but I didn’t care abt the rest of the assessments

[verbal epoch]

Does that work

Interesting

[hybrid moon]

Industry coding framework

It’s the more advanced codesignal

[hybrid moon]

You’re resume is good enough that it has a non trivial chance of working

From what I’ve gathered it works better if you’re actually a match

So basically apply
Give it two weeks
If you don’t hear back, hit up the recruiter

[verbal epoch]

gotcha

hm ig ill try

thanks for the advice on that

is there anything else that looks like it might be an issue w the resume or like is this year just fucked lol

[hybrid moon]

I mean so there you have it
Your problem is that you’re being ultra picky
Not that you don’t get call backs or interviews

[hybrid moon]

The year is especially fucked I’m triple FFANG and I’m also getting limited call backs

For comparison in 2021 I had about 17 interviews
Basically most places I applied I at least got an OA
And the OAs were doable

[potent moth]

How many interviews have u gotten so far this year

[hybrid moon]

No interviews
I’ve gotten OAs but haven’t done well enough to proceed to the next round

Most of the OAs I’ve gotten are the usual culprits: Ramp, X.ai, Citadel, Optiver, etc

[potent moth]

Oh I see

Are you NG or intern?

[hybrid moon]

NG

[earnest quarry]

idk lgtm largely

Are you not hearing back or are you getting rejected?

If former might j be worth waiting a bit

[verbal epoch]

Not hearing back

[earnest quarry]

Yh j wait prolly

[verbal epoch]

Praying you’re right thanks lol

If there is any place to improve tho lmk 🙏

[earnest quarry]

na lol u have enough solid experiences

[verbal epoch]

That’s good to hear

Ig crossing my fingers I hear back from some good places soon lol

[limpid moss]

resume lgtm - 3 yoe at big tech who interviews from interns to l4

how many apps have you sent out?

this might actually be the first resume ive seen on this discord that i cant nitpick

[hybrid moon]

Yo @verbal epoch did you apply to any of Ramp, Akuna Capital, Ciradel, TikTok?

Cuz istg you should’ve at least landed one of those

[verbal epoch]

Applied to ramp akuna & citadel

[verbal epoch]

thanks man that gives some hope. What company are u at if u don’t mind sharing (just curious to make sure I’m applying haha)

[verbal epoch]

Aced citadel, ghosted by ramp

And at this point prob ghosted by citadel lol

[hybrid moon]

Si what about ramp and Akuna? Did you get a perfect score on their OAs? Even for citadel if you did I’d recommend you just hit up a recruiter s

[limpid moss]

atlassian/meta

[verbal epoch]

Honestly I applied to akuna really late (p recently) and haven’t done the OA since I’m busy preparing figures for a conference, so that’s on me…

Haven’t heard anything from ramp and applied to the backend role on August 17th

[verbal epoch]

Oh sick yeah ill definitely apply to meta haha

[hybrid moon]

Hit up the recruiter

Like hey I did really well on the assessment but haven’t heard back, if love to hear if you think I’d be a good fit. Here’s my resume just incase