+1, no large companies or brands, looks like that’s the challenge. I am in the same boat. I am curious to know does Jupiter or cashfree considered large consumer brands?

@PhonyPanda - In their own domains, might be. Jupiter is pretty well known.

Product Manager

I'd say I'm a pretty strong PM with decent brand names on my resume (Top 5 nonIIM MBA, bestintheclass SaaS startups). I've even optimized my resume to the satisfaction of a FAANG mentor. All in all...

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

I'd say I'm a pretty strong PM with decent brand names on my resume (Top 5 non-IIM MBA, best-in-the-class SaaS startups). I've even optimized my resume to the satisfaction of a FAANG mentor. All in all, I think I should be getting call-backs. But that's not happening.

Weaknesses: No-name B-Tech college, no BigTech brand names, No large consumer brand names

Any advice or experiences? Especially from FAANG PMs and Hiring Managers?

Getting through FAANG resume screening is so frustrating

Getting through FAANG resume screening is so frustrating- Grapevine

Currently 3+ Yrs of Exp
TPM at a Unicorn
TC: 21 (Excluding Stocks)
College: VIT Vellore, CSE BTech

Up for a promotion this October. Will move to SPM

Want to move into a FAANG PM Role. 
I feel getting shortlisted is very difficult

Should I do an MBA to get there?
Don't want to spend time on CAT prep
Have given GRE - 320, GMAT - 700

Also, want to stay in India

How to get shortlisted for FAANG PM Role?

Hi all,

As the title suggests, I want to break into FAANG and companies like Uber, Walmart, MSFT and the likes but unable to do so. 

A bit about me:

BITS Pilani 2021 grad. I have ~3 YOE as a PM, 2 years at a major ecommerce unicorn and now, I'm at a relatively mid series C startup. I had to quit that unicorn because of toxicity and health issues, I still kind of regret it.

For my next move, which I'm planning in the next 2 years, I want to get into FAANG+ companies, but I'm afraid that since I'm not working at a company like Swiggy/Flipkart or a company of equivalent brand value, I won't be able to make it even past the resume screening. 

What should I do from here? Is it impossible for me to get into the companies I have mentioned?

What should be my path to becoming a FAANG PM?

What could be the possible reasons for my resume NOT getting selected by FAANG?
Few points to know:
• My profile is Data Science related
• My resume is only 1.25 pages
• I have total 6 years of experience and all is in
Data Science
• I'm applying to jobs as per my experience level only
• I have industry-relevant skillset and projects

Resume is NOT getting shortlisted by
FAANG

Senior Data Scientist

I am a BCA graduate with 2 years of experience as an Automation tester in one of the MNC. I am trying to get into FAANG but I am not getting any response. Can someone provide some ideas to get into it??

How to get into FAANG

Test Engineer

What are some of the tried & tested ways to get shortlist from big tech firms in Product domain ? Have applied to their portals multiple times but hardly got any response, despite good profile and experience

Best way to get resume shortlisted in big tech firms for PMs

Why do you want to work at FAANG? or Why do you not want to work at FAANG?

Why do you (not) want to work at FAANG?

Product Marketing Manager

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I am good at DSA and in HLD. I feel pretty confident that I will be able to crack the interview once I get a chance.

I have 2 yoe in total in 3 product based startups.

Graduated Bsc cs from a tier 1 college.

For folks who manage to get at interview there, what thing help you the most?

How to get interview at FAANG?

Software Engineer

I have close to 14 years of experience mostly in development and solution architecture. Right now I am working in a top FMCG company for 3 years now and now I want to switch to technical product based company such as FAANG , Salesforce and so. I need some help/suggestions on how should I move forward for the preparation.rrwuest you guys to share your experiences as well

Need help to prepare for FAANG

Solution Architect

I have 9+ years of work experience in Product Management, mostly across startups. I wish to experience working at BigTech/Faang companies. I don’t have an MBA. I graduated from IIT. Have no coding background. 
Serious and genuine advise would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Please advise to crack PM roles in Big Tech companies

Hi,

I'm a PM and I've recently left my job at a unicorn to take up a higher position at an early stage venture. I'm only the second PM hire of the company which means a LOT of 0 to 1 building.

The work is pretty solid and my level of learning is far, far beyond what I was doing at my unicorn stint. I have a lot more autonomy here and my manager is great.

But lately, I've been feeling that this move would probably close my doors for FAANG or even companies like Flipkart and Zomato - because they'd probably pick someone from a unicorn company over me. 

Is my apprehension correct? I'm only 3 years into my career if that helps.

Thanks

Is it possible to move from a early stage startup to FAANG companies?

I have seen some companies post about them looking to hire a lot of people and ask people to reach out to them over DM (if their DM is even open in the first place lol), but when I do, I never hear anything back. I have 4 yoe and have applied to so many of these companies, reached out to people working there, but no one has ever replied back. Why do they even say that their DMs are open in the first place? I don't know how to even get my resume in front of an actual person working there, and my resume is not even that bad. Like how do people get interviews in these companies in the first place? I have applied so many times but never actually got contacted by any HR. Any tips will be much appreciated.

[Rant] How do you get interviews in big companies like FAANG, PhonePe, Rippling, Atlassian, etc?

Getting interviews at FAANG india is not hard at all. Especially Amazon would literally interview anyone who knows basic coding and is alive. Have blocked multiple of their recruiters. 
  
 Try reaching out to folks working in these companies on LinkedIn.

Software Developer

Hi guys. My company is probably going to go under soon.
I am from a decent Grad college which is not famous and from a worse MBA college which no one knows.
I have 2 yoe as a Data PM.
This is my order of priority:
1. A big company which won't fire people for the next 3-4 yrs.
2. AI Product Management. I know stuff but very little experience. No formal education here.
3. Fintech since my current role involves finance and accounting stuff

Would love referrals, mentorship and gyaan.

Need to crack new PM Role

I have received an offer from B2B startup, fairly early stage bootstrapped and going for series A this year.
Base 45
JB 2
Variable 12%
And esops worth 30L over four years
Role SDE 2

YOE 3.5

should i still try for faang or go with this for a year, i really liked the people and team here and they are fully commited to making this startup a success and even their last company got accquired.

Should I choose 45L or wait for FAANG?

Had a call with my cousin this weekend. Life has been very hectic lately so, I have been laying low for a while now. Anyway, my cousin reached out and he brought up something very interesting. He mentioned how the quality of new engineering grads at FAANG has been trending downwards over the last three or so years.

Technical competency aside, there is a weird behavioural shift wherein freshers have adopted job hopping every 2-3 years. He told me that there are zero engineers who stayed longer than 3 years at his org. 

I mean optimizing for pay is fine. The thing to really balance for is impact in the long run because at one point you would find it hard to scale beyond a Lead/EM role at an org. 

But the real thing is that the "FAANG" hype has started to die down amongst the 99th percentile of talent. I wonder how long will it take to have a trickle down effect to 80th percentile and so on.

Just to validate, I asked a friend for his opinion and he opined that "Bhai, tum FAANG mei naaukar ho ya kisi startup mei, ho toh naukar hi." Translation: "You can work at FAANG, or at a startup but you are still a servant(employee)"

Is the FAANG hype really dead?

Is the FAANG hype dead? 💀

Was there any faang hype among 99th percentile folks in the first place?? 
 I graduated from a tier-1 college, majority of my friends are from Similar colleges and if I look in my friend circle, most of the folks are working at high growth startups or something of their own.  
 Sorry to say but faang was never aspirational to begin with.  
 The target audience of youtuber bhaiya/didis were tier-2/3 folks and maybe this kind of hype exists among them.

Hi. Would anyone know of awesome product openings in companies? Currently at Amazon; looking for a change. 7+ YOE.

PM openings? 7+ YOE, FAANG

Senior Product Manager

Profile- 4 YOE, B.Tech from old IIT
I started looking for new roles towards the end of June, and it took me approximately two months to get an offer letter. My skillset in a niche technical area helped me to get this offer. My advice to folks looking for a job, focus on your strengths and do not get discouraged. It's brutal out there, but you need only one job. Stay focused.

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