Should I even try to apply for google/facebook roles? After ~100 applications in the past 3 years, Ive got 2 interviews (1 with f and 1 with g) without an offer. I’m a 2nd year manager in tech industry in bay. Got my mba in top 30 school with no pre-tech experience before. I’m at 4 years now in the bay working for all sorts of tech clients including faang. I rarely get any response and never passed 2nd round. Should I give up and just try to find a stepping stone elsewhere?

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If you've tried 100 times past 3 years maybe get the hint? People need to stop being obsessed with FAANG

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Haha all the companies you mentioned are probably just as selective as FAANG

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What does covid have to do with not making it at Facebook? They are recruiting heavily across most teams

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They've passed a lot of business roles

Op have someone review your resume. I have gotten a Facebook interview cold out of PwC, and they reached out to me. It was at the start of Covid, so I did not make second round.

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Yes would suggest someone within those firms to review your resume. Also curious how did you apply 100 times in the past years. I thought google had a 3 months and fb 1 year rule before you could apply again, and at one time you can only apply to 3 jobs. But I could be wrong.

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When you’re working in some of them, they release their limits

Op, here are some folks who broke into FAANG from PWC
https://careermap.ai

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It gets harder at higher levels at Google since we can pick form a pool of candidates that have the exact experience the team is looking for. If most/all of your experience is in consulting, you will lose opportunities to people who perhaps have a more diverse set of skills.

For example someone with undergrad engineering -> Boeing -> top-15 MBA -> MBB -> E-bay/Slack/MSFT -> Google is far more appealing than someone who was undergrad -> B4 consulting -> top-7 MBA -> MBB consulting -> Google.

Strongly suggest you try to get a job at a less “prestigious” tech firm first and use that to lateral. There tons of awesome firms that pay as well or better than G/F

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Have you been applying with referrals?

Happy to provide insight on the resume and also interview process for folks here but just for transparency I'm unable to provide referrals.

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I’d be happy to get such insights. Let me know how I can contact you

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Are you applying to roles that are YOE appropriate? Big Tech generally only cares about relevant YOE, so if you're applying to jobs that require, say, 10 relevant YOE with 6 relevant consulting YOE, that's likely an automatic screen-out.

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Curious, where do you think you're hitting a wall in the interview process?

Hi Facebook 1, would you be willing to give some insight to my resume as well? Thanks so much!

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