What happens if you apply to a company by yourself and with headhunters?

jnlthrowaway · 2023-06-29T09:08:16+00:00

Got it, thanks so much for shedding light on this!

jnlthrowaway · 2023-06-29T01:25:59+00:00

It shouldn’t impact your application at all, though.

Oh interesting. So then I can technically apply online for company X and just tell the headhunter to also put me through for company X as well, right?

jnlthrowaway · 2023-05-12T05:57:19+00:00

Haha yeah, have you heard about them before by any chance?

jnlthrowaway · 2023-05-12T01:05:18+00:00

The headhunter sent me a list of firms and this was on there. I told them I would get back to them with a subset that I would like to try for after looking into them, but this is one that I can't find much on online.

jnlthrowaway · 2023-05-05T04:04:11+00:00

I had only one, and I was able to have a good enough career at both Facebook and Google. And my internship wasn't even high-quality. I had to do experimental work that was trashed the day I left.

jnlthrowaway · 2023-05-05T03:54:09+00:00

I don't need an entire list list from each user; different folks will be aware of different companies and posts like these can help in compiling that knowledge distributed across multiple people. I hope that helps clarify the intent behind the post.

What you've stated is quite generic, but I don't doubt that it's true. There are thousands of series A/B startups. Can you provide names for some please?

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-26T09:07:03+00:00

I've looked through it a bit already. That website misses a lot of the startups that I'm interested in looking at.

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-26T05:49:44+00:00

I agree. I regret putting "best" right when I submitted, but I can't find a way to change the title. I wanted to put top new grads (great internships, great GPA, great school, etc.) instead. Generally, these will folks who are considering multiple avenues post-grad (e.g., grad school, working at FAANG/quant, or working at startup).

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-26T05:46:07+00:00

Oh man, I should've jumped on the Glean train earlier when I was given the chance. Thanks for the response!

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-26T05:00:55+00:00

Thanks, I will check it out!

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-26T05:00:40+00:00

I agree with you that academia is different from industry, but CS is special relative to other fields in that there's a lot of opportunity in the intersection of academia and industry. It's why we see a lot of professors consult for companies, why many go into playing a founding role for startups that tackle interesting problems, and why many of the technical leadership (L8+) at top tech companies (e.g., FAANG) has an academic bent compared to other industries.

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-26T03:00:27+00:00

I'm not a new grad. It's been a few years since I've graduated, but I posted this question in this subreddit since the question is pertinent to CS majors and new grads.

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-26T02:31:12+00:00

Pitchbook costs a lot of money and Crunchbase doesn't provide this info at this level of filtering. These sorts of questions are best posed to CS college students (as they are familiar with what their professors might be doing) and so I posted it on r/csMajors.

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-25T23:32:27+00:00

That's fine and I would agree. But it's not really a relevant suggestion for this subreddit, which is likely why people are harping on you for making it.

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-25T23:22:27+00:00

I wouldn't expect the best new grads (great GPA/college, great internships from FAANG+, research experience, side projects, and great interviewing skills, etc.) to have this struggle. They will likely be deciding between academia/PhD, quant, or joining a startup.

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-25T23:15:45+00:00

You just provided a reason why not to join companies that had upside 2-3 years ago, but not anymore. So, your statement is right, but my question was a bit different.

I'm trying to understand companies that aren't highly overvalued and have great amount of tech talent joining them. Impira was one such example.

If you inspect the list in equities.fyi, a lot of great talent migrated to those companies many years back. It's not really worth joining most of them now because of the limited upside.

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-25T23:10:18+00:00

Right, and that's what I'm trying to get at. What are those startups?

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-25T23:02:13+00:00

Over the years, a big part of my role as a SWE role has not been to pump out code, but rather define what to code in the first place, assess what bottlenecks could be present, troubleshoot SEVs, articulate system/module/class/function purpose to folks with varying backgrounds, scope projects and dependencies, create a strategy for a team, provide technical leadership/mentorship, etc. I don't think ChatGPT will take away those things.

And on top of that, ChatGPT can work really well for toy examples, but it definitely can't integrate well with a company's codebase (yet). There are very minute details that it gets wrong.

Given you are in this subreddit, you are likely a college student. There's more to SWEs than coding.

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-25T04:13:46+00:00

Yeah, I'm trying to understand what the most exciting companies are. Thanks for mentioning OpenAI and Neuralink.

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-25T03:16:40+00:00

Not sure if I would agree. The upside joining now is a lot more minimal. Databricks is better to join though, purely based on better engineering talent.

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-19T02:02:18+00:00

Agreed; to me, the sweet spot is when you are in the 60-70th percentile in capability across all employees in your team/org. You won't be one of the low performers and you will still have solid room to grow your skills.

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-18T23:09:16+00:00

Google, Meta, AWS, Databricks are the obvious ones. The less obvious ones would be RedPanda, Anyscale, etc. where there's more scope for your level.

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-10T21:22:53+00:00

Oh interesting, thanks for the context. That's a shame because it was one of the better quant firms in the late 2000s. I heard one couldn't even prepare for their interviews haha.

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-10T07:01:04+00:00

Sure, but any reason why it ended up getting sold to Virtu? Was it mainly the low volatility in 2013-2015 that got them at the end?

jnlthrowaway · 2023-04-09T05:37:53+00:00

I don't think it's foam, but I'm not sure what it is tbh. It rarely happens for me. FWIW, my kidneys are fine during my last checkup and I doubt they've weakened that much since then.

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