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My experience is similar but at a differet level of seniorty. I've applied to ~15 jobs for engineering manager and got 1 answer.

On the other end a recruiter reached out to me and I'll be doing the final interview with their VP next week.

I don't think we can draw conclusion at that stage (we are a dataset of 2..). But I'd love to have access to the LinkedIn dataset to figure out if applying for jobs is broken at scale.

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Waiting for a recuitor to call you limits your potential but makes the process easier for you. Applying yourself takes a lot of work but you get to select who you want and to target a bigger group which. But it's messy, ugly , stressful and filled with rejections for no reason.

Doing both, when you need a job, gives you the best of both worlds.

It's ugly and mimicks real life... more effort gives better results but life isn't fair and never has been. Luck factors but always fight on multiple fronts.

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