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Something is wrong with the field. Applications are awful.
I was scrolling through LinkedIn when I saw this Sankey of a hackathon organizer trying to get a SWE role:An obviously talented and hard-working student, who was accepted by Microsoft (literally the biggest tech company ever), got rejected by 97% of the internships/opportunities they applied to. Perhaps applications follow the 100 calls:10 pick-ups:1 sale ratio of marketing. The fact that people apply to so many jobs, implies that they think they need to. This strategy of shooting at many tar...
Something is wrong with the field. Applications are awful.
I was scrolling through LinkedIn when I saw this Sankey of a hackathon organizer trying to get a SWE role:An obviously talented and hard-working student, who was accepted by Microsoft (literally the biggest tech company ever), got rejected by 97% of the internships/opportunities they applied to. Perhaps applications follow the 100 calls:10 pick-ups:1 sale ratio of marketing. The fact that people apply to so many jobs, implies that they think they need to. This strategy of shooting at many tar...
