With the present market situation, nowadays you don't even get an OA Link/Interview call even though applying with a referral, no wonder how good my portfolio is. Oncampus placements are a bloodbat...

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With the present market situation, nowadays you don't even get an OA Link/Interview call even though applying with a referral, no wonder how good my portfolio is. On-campus placements are a bloodbath. Good knows how they shortlist candidates. Almost the same name in every list. Meanwhile, I discovered cold mailing. Saw some posts where they got internships via cold mailing. Need some good templates and tips for Cold mailing HRs, managers, and directors.

Some tips and templates for Cold Mailing

Software Developer

Some tips and templates for Cold Mailing- Grapevine

Please suggest some good method for cold mailing/message to join a startup or a firm. Have reached out over mail to multiple folks but no success in converting into calls. Appreciate any suggestion or advice.

Cold mailing/message

Consultant

Please share the company name or contact details.

Any one looking for product interns?

Generalist

Welcome to Moving Abroad's Private Community

Is anyone here working in Careem UAE? How to get in there, also heard they only pick solid people in India only with a referral.

Working in Careem

Product Manager

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Hello all

I work as a software developer at a seed -> acquired startup. Total work ex is around 1.5years. I am looking for a change now. 
Till now I have applied to some bigger companies with referrals and some through job portals, only got one call till now after applying at many of them.

I want to switch gears in my application now as I want to switch as soon as possible. The next step would be cold emailing decent startups. 

Could you guys help me with my approach to cold emailing and share some best practices? I don't have much experience doing cold emails because I've gotten previous jobs either through campus/angellist like sites.

PS: The number of calls/applications is making me a bit anxious
I've tried dropping LinkedIn connect messages to a lot of recruiters and engineering managers but no luck

Job Hunt

Software Engineer

I’m dumbfounded when the best piece of advice I hear is that its a numbers game and probability is supreme.
There’s got to be a strategy that one applies to shortlist from the ocean of offers out there.

- applying in the same domain as your current company?
- platform or regions where recruiters are more active?
- directly talking to freelance HMs and doing a deal?

If no hack, just share what worked for you? And how are you optimising the job searching?

Give me your best strategies for job hunting?

1. Accept that it's a numbers game. Especially in this market  
 2. Embrace that there may be a super stupid person on the other side . E.G - My CV was rejected at a big Web3  startup, but I persisted : went through a reference spoke to HR and showed her how the CV is a 90%+ Match. She ended up fixing an interview. What if I didn't have a referral? Jata na 
 3. There is only one hack - get that CV in front of the hiring managers face : through referrals, through problem solution one pagers that I've DM'd directly to founders or hiring managers, consistently applying to the widest net, getting friendly and maintaining good relations with head hunters: I've helped so many head hunters with their other mandates unrelated to me, just for the sake of it. No expectations.  
  
 DESPITE throwing such a wide net, it still is roughly taking me 9-10 months for my next gig. Sure I'm looking at leadership mandates and woh roles by default halway mein nahi khatam hote.  
  
 But play the numbers smartly is the only way. Send a 100 tries out (but customized and personalized not spam) and tab hi kaam karega.

Brand Marketing Manager

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

So I have been interning at Accolite Digital as an Swe. I got the opportunity via oncampus drive. They offered a 6 month internship+ FTE(8 lpa CTC and 3 lpa as retention bonus). After 4 months of internship they randomly terminated internships of 10 interns stating their performance was inadequate which was complete bullshit as I knew those interns worked really hard. Later the HR told us that they have reduced the retention bonus from 3 lpa to 2 lpa without having any discussion with us. After 6 months of internship they again forced around 20-30 interns to hand over their resignation as they have found better opportunity but the reality was that they didn't have projects to allot to them and didn't want to display it as layoffs. After all this shitholery they gave the rest of us an extension of 2 months till 15th of October and today they told us that they have further extended our internship till December. During this period of time I worked my ass off for this shit organisation and worked late at night to connect with the client. They only paid us 20k as an internship stipend and expected us to be present at the office all 5 days a week. The worst thing is that I initially had 5 job offers in hand and I had to reject them all to accept this one. They also have 1 year of bond which they won't wave off. I am literally shattered and actively looking for better job opportunities as a SWE fresher with 8 months of internship experience. I would beg the community to please like this post as much as they can so that someone who is actively hiring who could see this. Also if any of u guys have any openings at ur firm please do consider me!!

Biggest Ref flag Accolite Digital

Hi everyone , I graduated this year in May from an  IIT but from an earth science branch . I have around 1 year of experience as an intern in different companies, including as a Japanese AI company . In college, I have a very low GPA ( < 6.5), so on campus was practically impossible ( I did get an offer :) ) .In my final semester, I worked at a service based company based out of Germany as an intern, which hired indian devs ( you know why ).

So, I got an offer from them around 20 LPA( all base) remote. Culture is good, no micromanagement or odd working hours, and people are helpful. I work around 45 hours per week .But They have fried 4 dev in the last 3 months citing 'lack of ownership'. I tried to get an offer from other companies but couldn't find much success due to market conditions and branch .I have been working for around 5 months, managing a social app in react native and expo that was created when I was intern . I code and handle other tasks like creating tickets, scoping requirements, and reviewing intern code. I also work on Backend, Database, and a react based web app, too sometimes. 

I have a feeling that as the product is mvp, I am not working on scale, and nobody cares about optimization for all large scales or complex devops,design patterns, or even basic caching . Instead, we really on managed services like codebuild or fargate, which I do handle most of the time

I will ask for suggestions from experienced folks that what should I do in this case should I actively try for new role or put effort in my job. ( Company is encouraging new dev to learn new stuff different from the regular job , for me, it's caching for this quarter )

Thanks for your time

Suggestion for fresher

Hi everyone, I am from a Tier-1 engineering college, looking for jobs in Product space. Any idea, what kind of companies/which sector is hiring right now? College placements have been really bad this year, and applying off-campus has been a real pain (no replies, calls from companies).

This is not the first time I am applying off campus, I know it's a tiring process especially at a fresher level, but this time it has been worse. If your company is hiring/if you know anywhere I should apply please help!🙏

Stressed and worried

Looking for recommendations where HR's reply is faster/processing of application is faster.

What platforms are you using to apply for jobs?

Lead Designer

Been over a month I have been laid off. For the first time in almost 4 years I have had no work at all for over a month. Feels a bit good, a bit relaxed from the immense work pressure and toxicity but at the same time lot of pressure with regard to finances, as and more days are passing. Have been taking time out to upskill myself, applied to over 300+ jobs maybe by now. Got call backs from 10-12, interviewed with 5. None of them turned out to be positive yet. Lot of sympathy and empathised content goes on LinkedIn but reaching out to people, 1/15 may respond, putting a status, people just write CFBR mostly (hence I totally avoided that).

Any advice, tips, help would be appreciated.

I’m from a non-tech background.

34 Days and counting..

Growth Manager

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

What has worked the most for you in getting your job application shortlisted?
Please share your ways cause I am literally STRUGGLING 

Currently I am trying below things

1. Regularly updating naukri (activity level is good but very few HRs directly contact.  Few send invites but ghost later on)

2. Sending cold emails to HRs and Engineers (very few refer, but then again status never changes from "in review")

3. Applying on portal directly 

About me : I have 3 YOE in data engineering working for a top banking client. Stack : PYSPARK, SQL, AWS S3, Hive, Hadoop, Linux scripting, python

Strugglinggg

Data engineer

I am a frontend developer with 3+years of experience both in frontend /fullstack development , I am going to complete my contract next month applying for tonnes of companies but not getting any replies , can anyone suggest better ways to find jobs in this holiday seasons, I am open to work in Hyderabad or remote & part time as well

How is the javascript developer market right now?

Profile:

- Tier 1 engineering UG
- ~ 3 years work-ex across B2B SaaS as PM + biz generalist

Specific sectors of interest: SaaS, AI, Dev tooling/ Infra

Any specific advise on how to approach firms for entry-level roles? Barely see any listings on LinkedIn / other job boards

How to break into venture capital?

we were playing truth or dare and my friend challenged me that she could get any job interview with a cold email/dm. 

I usually receive hearback from 1/50 job postings I apply to, so didn't believe her at all.

now she made a GPT to write cold emails and get job interviews.

I really wanna use it, but she is flexing so hard now, my ego tells me not to use it.

help me out, do cold emails and all really work?

friend made GPTs to get jobs😤

It has been 25 days since I got laid off from the startup that I was working for. I have given a few interviews. Got rejected in 1st or 2nd rounds in a few, went till the last round n rejected in a couple and haven't heard back from the HR in a few. Not hearing back, unanswered calls, delays in rounds etc. cause a lot of anxiety and impacts my confidence and preparation levels. How do I tackle it? 
Also, unable to find fresh openings in product/ strategy roles for past few days. This also adds to pressure and uncertainty.

In short, it is a very troubling phase. How do I deal with it? Need enormous help from all of you folks. Would love to hear some great thoughts / insights / hacks too.

Laid off and preparing for interviews

Hello All, 

I am a backend engineer with over 6 years of experience and I have been trying to apply to jobs in Germany. I'm using LinkedIn, arbeitnow and a couple of other websites. 

Is there a whatsapp or discord group for people who are serious about applying to Germany ? If so it would be helpful for people to join and discuss the entire process

Applying to Germany

Backend Engineer

Cold email vs cold LIn message

Currently I am in my second year from a Tier 3 college. On campus placements at my college for the 2024 batch is really worse. Few companies are hiring for sales roles etc. and most of them are putting tough eligibility criteria and hiring only few.

To be very honest, I have no hopes from on campus placements. I am going for the off campus route.
What should I do to get a decent intern in third year/fourth year and a decent job by the time of graduation?

Talking about my progress, I am doing DSA, taking part in contests in Codechef, Codeforces, and Leetcode. 
Besides that I have started learning Machine Learning. Have done only the Math part and basics though still now. Been to 2 offline hackathons.

Second year CS undergrad

Few days ago. I have posted about this assignment to do in 2hour. 
Infact i did this assignment and implemented all concepts. 


Please note :  i only left validation on the client side just a single function to check email regex. 
They rejected me. 
If there is any openings for 1+ yoe in react js. 
Please let me know, i am looking to join immediately. 
I am literally shocked, cant they think that if i can implement useref, audioref, redux concepts. 
Can i implement the validations ? 
I am attaching my repo here. The task i performed live while sharing my screen. 
https://github.com/HeyitzSagar/MusicStreaming

If anyone has any relevant opening, pls let me know ?

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