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What in the world... I'm a FAANG employee - I think I'm around 18 years of experience now (I stopped counting) - with a great resume (or so I'm told), and I can't even get 100K jobs to respond to me let alone FAANG jobs. I'm talking about the initial step too; I've had zero interviews or screenings.

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That sounds odd. With that much experience you should at least be getting offers in the 200k range easily. Are you cold applying or using referrals? I found these days CVs get screened by software that's very sensitive to keywords, and it's very easy to get auto-rejected.

I documented my process of getting job offers here, you can check it out in case it helps

https://www.teamblind.com/post/My-experience-getting-offers-...

This is a pro Blind post and I appreciate that you took the time to write it up in such detail :)

Online applications are a black hole. I was a staff SWE at Google at the end of 2021 and my online applications ever got a response. I networked a bit and ended up with two strong offers.

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