Atlassian 
 Meta London 
 McKinsey 
 BharatPe 
 Groww 
 Zomato 
  
 Trust the process.

Software Engineer

No, I work at Jain Street, its right next to my house here, i flip vegan jain burger patties for a living.

Did you interview there? I got rejected by ~15 companies after atleast a round of interview, and I rejected 2-3. But I had applied to almost 250+ companies over 4-5 months

How do you get calls from so many companies? I have a hard time getting calls.

Product Manager

Atleast u got opportunity to try at all these companies… Anyway, good going. Stay strong

How you got opportunity? By referral or by naukri?

Thanks for doing this. When I was in college I failed 10+ interviews. Long list. Mostly because I was an introvert and really poor at communicating my thoughts

Operations Analytics

Let me share my list: 
 1. Uber 
 2. Google  
 3. Zeta

Operations Manager

Me sitting silently in a corner who applied for all the companies you name, where I didn't even got  shortlisted 🫠

Not getting shortlisted might also be due to company budget

Founder

Here’s mine: 
  
 Bain 
 McKinsey 
 Blume 
 Ula

Corporate Strategist

Google 
 Amazon  
 Phonepe 
 Paytm 
 Vmware 
 Meesho

Tell me more about the paytm one, how was the dsa level?

DevOps Engineer

Cashfree  
 Indiagold  
 Acko  
 AI Dash  
 Fi

Hey tbh my interview success rate was 100 until now. Total given is 4 overall from last year, I’ve 1 yoe. Just gave this recent interview the 4th one, no responce. So basically failed.  
  
 “DXC technology”

Security Analyst

Could you kindly share your interview experience too?

Google 
 Microsoft 
 Acko 
 Ajio (they ghosted telling me 'you have cleared but internal process is taking time ')

Investor

Nothing hurts as much as getting a rejection mail within 1 hour from Amazon. 
 1. Klarna 
 2. Kindred 
 3. Goldman Sachs 
 4. Chargebee 
 5. Paypal 
 6. Sahaj  
 And a 20+ before landing my current job. I learned a lot from these.

Sad part is this repeats every 1-2 years in career

Deloitte, Wipro, westernacher, NTT. Beat that!

Software Developer

Analyst

Expedia 
 Landmark group 
 McKinsey  
 Goto(logmein) 
 Arista networks  
 Hevo data  
 In Most of which i got rejected after reaching the last round in campus interviews bcz of their limited intake(1-2) due to recession,but finally ended up with a decent offer

Data Scientist

Cloudflare 
 Stripe 
 Linear 
 Railway 
 Meta 
 Google 
 Zomato 
 PayTM 
 Uber 
 Ola 
 ..., etc.

Just to state that it a part of the journey (and also to convince myself), here are the list of companies where I got rejected so far in my career during job search: 1. Makemytrip 2. Gojek 3. Ph...

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Just to state that it a part of the journey (and also to convince myself), here are the list of companies where I got rejected so far in my career during job search:
1. Makemytrip
2. Gojek
3. Phonepe
4. Swiggy
5. Atlassian 
6. Shaadi.com
7. Amazon
And tons of other places

Posting companies where I failed to clear

Posting companies where I failed to clear- Grapevine

Got rejection email from the company which i so much wanted to get in. Got rejected after the system design round. I tried my best but not sure what went wrong. How do you guys handle such situation? One email just thrashed whatever you were expecting since past few days.

Rejected from dream company

I am a frontend developer with 1.4 years of experience. I worked in a YC-backed startup where I led their product. I have given interviews at Simpl Pay, PhonePe and many small and mid-sized startups. For Simpl Pay and PhonePe, I failed the interviews and was disappointed in myself. In small and mid-sized startups there I answered 95% of their questions perfectly, yet I was still rejected. 

I have given 9 interviews to date and have been rejected in each of them. I would say 60% of them were interviews where I answered every question correctly and felt I should have been hired while 40% were ones where I failed to answer some questions and deserved the rejection.

It has been 6-7 months that I am unemployed, learning React Native and TypeScript and going deeper into frontend technologies. I am not able to understand if this is only happening to me or if it is common in the current market.

Any guidance or advice that could help me get a job quickly would be greatly appreciated. I feel well-prepared for interviews but any additional insights you have might be beneficial.

Job Hunting Since Nov 22 (Still unemployed)

I was laid off in February. Finally after 2.5 months of boring interviews and life, landed a job. Today was Day 1. 
I was outside India for a while doing crazy stuffs. I returned in June and then started applying. Here is the summary. 
1. Lots of applicants in the job market. Every job would attract 1000s of applicants 
2. Most jobs require high experience - 5+ 
3. Applying and finding companies who are hiring is tough. 
4. Emailed everyone in network, took referrals from all friends, took referrals from LinkedIn (very low response), Applied on instahyre, Wrote to startup founders, applied Wellfound, Workday(worst of all), Naukri 
5. Startups are the worst - gave petty assignments and ghosted after getting solution. Had to follow up multiple times but to no avail. They ate my whole 1 month
6. Some interviews were different - in one I had to code in python very fast. That's it. Wasn't selected as I was looking up for syntax on internet. 
7. Overall it was a very boring and tiring process. I somehow maintained my sanity. 

YoE- 2
TC- 29L ( Base +PF)

Laid off in Feb. Landed a job now.

Tough time never last but tough people do  
 Great 🔥

Finding it difficult to get permanent WFH now. Can you guys please mention the name of your company if they offer permanent WFH. 
I'm currently working at swiggy and they offer WFH.

List of remote companies

Raftlab. Pay may be less 
  
 I am planning to create an entire list of remote Indian companies by going through all the posts available but not getting time.

Engineering Manager

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.

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I have got an offer from Oracle, but in their service based domain, hike is fair but its all fixed comp and no ther benefits.
I am applying to so many jobs but getting rejected. Not a single call from a product based company.
I don’t want to work in service based as my experience in Infosys is pathetic.
Till now I applied for about 200+ jobs but the problem is-
Getting calls only from some unknown startups and their budget is low if they compare to my offer.
Not getting shortlisted in any product based even with referrals.

There is only one thing to be happy, that I have an offer and even if its service domain in Oracle, in experience I can show comapny name as Oracle and it won’t be mentioned whether its service based or product. But internally I know it won’t help in long run. It will only be showing in my linkedin that I work at Oracle.

Frustrated with applying jobs and getting rejected everywhere. 2 month of notice remaining, not sure what shoudl I change in my strategy or what should I do. Overthinking is also cherry on the cake.

Frustrated!!! 🤯

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I have see many lists of places to work at. Let’s create a list of companies not to work at. Please post the company name and the experience of working their.

Top 100 places not to work at!

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Quick background: A seniorish middle management guy here

Got the last 2 jobs via my network, didn't apply for it. 

Some lessons learnt:
1. Get into that high iq, mafia type companies, where the bar is really high 
2. If you end up doing good then you'll get calls from your circles to work on something exciting
3. Lastly, work on your personal branding, write that blog down, tell how you did it, it should attract niche audience in your circle

Good luck 🤞🏻

I like this hot take

Yep, my last two jobs were 
 - inbound from a hiring manager who read some medium posts 
 - direct referral from ex colleague at a company from 4 years back

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Trying to see companies that people here have had the dream to join, but didn’t ultimately work out. Have you now grown over it?

Which company were you obsessed with joining, but never could?

For me it was McKinsey 
 It was the best job out of college, status wise. 
  
 Did well in college and made it to the final shortlist. Was obsessed with it, read books and all about The Firm. 
  
 Then the interviews happened, couldn’t convert. Was a downer.  
  
 But 5 years later, doesn’t matter much. I feel life taught me better things. And my fascination of consulting jobs has changed drastically since :p

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Context: 10.5 YOE, Marketing lead. I've been looking for a switch since September last year. I'd seen signs of maybe my role or the company itself folding very early and knew 'twas time to bolt. But it's not that easy. Back then - 1 year in a startup meant hey not bad, people still spoke to you and considered your profile. These days, they treat you like Ebola if you've not had your ass stuck in the same place for 3-5 years. 

Anyway, so the majority of my time searching for jobs was the shitty Easy Apply or IIMJOBS premium account route. Suprise suprise. It doesn't work. But hey I was still employed and not nearly as motivated as someone who's unemployed. 

Cut to layoffs: Got laid off with my whole team and a huge chunk of other leaders. My first layoff, felt hilariously like the last day of school. To the org's credit they gave us 3 month severance, leave encashments and extra months for those who'd been there for 2 years+. In hindsight hearing the horror stories of 2k severance from Byju's. I'm grateful for the nice golden parachute I got. I'll be honest, it contributed heavily to my mental stability. I had time, I had leverage, I didn't have to run for the first shitty opportunity that came my way. 

The How I did it (why you struggled through the above stream of consciousness) 

- Wrote to 159 founders with one pagers to 35 of them with ideas on how i'd lead their marketing function. 5 replies. 3 interviews. 2 offers - didn't take em cuz they were super early stage or diff cities. This is immediately in month 1 so I've already started feeling icky about not getting great brands to have in my set. 
- Easy Applied to 768 (I ran a Gmail search, this is a real number) jobs. 99% no responses or you've been rejected. 
-Kept changing one letter on my Naukri.com profile, got me 6 calls, 3 interviews and 1 conversion 

I think theres a word limit to posts 🥲 following up as comments below.

Finally got a job (here's the do's and dont's)

Part 3 
  
 - Add HRs and hiring managers on LinkedIn, send them free ideas and strategies. Its ok if they steal them it meant they were great. One of them will refer you, remember you or hire you. 
 - Have a CV and a summary (half a page) that gets people excited about wanting to read the CV. Only areas of expertise and bullet points for results  
 - Don't put the OpentoWork filter on your LinkedIn DP. Its radioactive. I know people actively avoid those profiles. But make sure to keep open to work beacon on for recruiters. It pushes you ahead  
 - Dont post low effort i need a job because im laid off, i dont have money, copy pasted by millions on Linkedin. If you're gonna publically ask for a job, make sure that post has enuff of your skillset screaming for a potential hirer to want to explore more. Else you'll get velle gadhe typing CFBR 
 - Dont be anal or choosy about interviewing, i literally gave 35-50 in 3 months that culminated in 4 offers. Each one taught me something, heck ive spoken to startups with 7 peeps in it  
 - The only one that can negotiate CTC is the one that can walk away. When the offer i wanted finally came, my fixed went down a tad, but variable increased. The role was worth it so i didnt bother negotiating. Places i wasnt excited about - oh i quoted 30% hikes and got it at one place :p

Brand Marketing Manager

Try to avoid asking questions which can doxx me on LinkedIn (that's where I post a little)

See if you can focus on asking questions around principles & not masala stories

Problem with masala stories is that you'll learn the wrong things from my narratives

This will be fun I think

AMA - 6 years in PM + 5 years Analytics

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I am SDE backend with 6 yoe (Java, spring boot, python, flask) currently working with org in Pune with annual package of 32 LPA I want to switch to higher package  but couldn't find many options in Pune or remote India already applied to many companies on linkdin but no luck from past few months also work in current org isn't much exciting. I see many threads about jobs here but mostly are in Bangalore and Hyderabad not sure I am the only one or anybody else feeling this issue.

Want to switch company but stuck

I am a backend engineer with a 9 year exp. In my fourth company now. Started with 5 lpa, now at 31 Lpa. 
Mostly have worked in normal companies only. I am from one of the NITs. 
I am not good at DSA. Everytime I have to switch a job, my resume gets shortlisted  and I get call via naukri. 
The things is in these last 4 job searches I have been rejected 100 times. I have been rejected by almost all the companies, 
Service now 5-6 times, oracle 5-6 times, Walmart 2 times, goldman 3 times, jpmorgan 2 times, Amazon 4-5 times, arcesium 3-4 times, msft 2 times. 
Apart from these, I have been rejected by adp, celigo, phenom, barclays, flipkart etc. 

Every time, I want to change a job, I'll get rejected by all the big companies and then will get selected at some normal company with a hike and will join them. 
I am at my fourth company now, and again I am searching for a job. Have already been rejected by GS, service now, phenom, epam, ice, demandbase in last 2 months. 
Every time it is the same DSA. 

I try studying, will do decent amount of leetcode prior to interviews. Last two months I am doing leetcode from strivers sheet. 
But same question I'll do here, and in interview will fail. Example I have done sorted array rotation, shares sell and buy, rain water trapping, and was asked the same question in interview and couldn't solve. 

I also want to earn more and get into some big company and stay there for some times, what shall I do? 

My concerns are, I am getting lesser calls this time compared to the last few years, I can't be switching job every two years. 
Want to join a big company and earn more.

How to get better at DSA?

The Startup that you had an offer from but did not join, and then it went big? (Let's take a word from VCs, how they like to use anti portfolio lists on their sites - cos they got an opportunity to enter but missed)

What's your anti-startup

Growth Manager

I'm 24 year old unemployed. I graduated in 2021 with BTech IT from tier 3 college. 
Initially I was preparing for UPSC exam but I gave up after few months and now for a year I have been learning Front End Development and have learnt HTML, CSS, JS & ReactJS but unable to find a job.
I made a lot of mistakes in past and didn't learned from them. I'm not good at anything. I apply daily at different platforms ex: wellfound (formerly angellist), hirist, hirect, instahyre, cutshort, individual mass hiring companies off campus but from nowhere I'm getting interview call even if I get call I'm not able to clear interview. 

Now the thing is my parents gave me ultimatun to get out of the house by April 1st they don't care what type of job I do. 
I don't understand what can I do now. I'm willing to do hardwork and learn from my mistakes I just need little guidance to get on a track. If anyone can guide me on how to get a job or any advice. I would really appreciate it. Thanks for reading.

I need help regarding my career as a fresher. How can I turn my life around?

Frontend Engineer

I'm a UX designer in an MNC with almost 2 years of experience. I want to work on a mid size / small design team with strong design practices. Does anyone have recommendations for companies I can consider?

I am looking for places where design contributes to product decisions, strategy, rather than simply executing the PRDs.

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