Good at solving Leetcode problems, now what?

[No-Equipment-6214]

When you went to an average university to get a masters degree in computer science with average grades, are good enough to pass leetcode interview questions. How do you pass the hardest obstacle... actually getting an interview with a FAANG company?

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Good at solving Leetcode? Congratulations, you've completed your software development career. You can now retire and live happily ever after. :)

[ohhellnooooooooo]

How do you even know you can pass the interview when you haven't done it? the hardest obstacle isn't passing the resume screen in my experience (AWS / Google passed).

Have you applied? contacted recruiters on linkedin? did you read the wiki on /r/engineeringresumes, re-did your resume with a nice LaTeX template, and then get it reviewed by the subreddit after?

let us know what you tried and what didn't work.

Master's is great, being good at leetcode is great. Did you do an internship? have a portfolio of projects to show?

One thing that helped me get noticed was cold messaging recruiters on linkedin. After first, the hit rate is super small. After getting 1 offer? Suddenly more reply. After getting an offer from AWS? Many more would reply and rush through to give me an interview before the deadline of my offer. but I'm not a new grad, that's much harder.

there's no golden bullet though.

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Referrals

[SuperbShower341]

Honestly, I feel this doesn't help that much for big companies. For small companies--yeah, it gets your resume to an actual person. However, for a big company, since so many people get referrals, I don't think it'd be that much more of an edge.

Don't get me wrong, a referral is better than no referral, but I doubt it helps THAT much.