Did you go to MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, Harvard, a different highly selective University?
Were you previously working at another highly selective/famous company?
If so it's pretty easy to get the interview, if not it's pretty hard without a referral.
I just went to the jobs page and clicked the "I'd like a job please" button. And what do you know, a recruiter contacted me a few days later to setup an interview.
I think people underestimate how desperate big tech companies are for warm bodies right now. It's not that hard to get an interview.
I went to RPI which isn’t a bad place, but isn’t MIT. I had a good gpa and decent projects but got ignored or instant rejections from Google and Facebook, I was able to get other interviews (Twitter, Palantir) and after working at a famous company now it’s easy to get interviews, but there’s a randomness to it.
If you don’t have a brand name school or don’t know someone it’s still difficult. Not the fault of the companies really, there are just too many applicants.
Since I was in school there are more companies tackling this like triple byte so maybe it’s better now?
Out of the handful of companies I interviewed at, Google was the only one who offered feedback on where my interview went wrong. I thought that was nice of them.
