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1) Does the company work in the Tech that I know (at the time I was Java, C, SQL, JS, and R mainly) 2a) Did the company recently have any bad press? (Smaller companies were harder to judge on this, but larger ones are easy. i.e. JP Morgan Chase was not on my list, However Capital One was.) 2b) (This was only used if I was unsure after 2a) If I knew someone in the company over my professional network, or a frined of a friend, etc. I would reach out and ask them about the company. Most people responded to me which was nice. Come to find out we would talk about our mutual relation and then I could ask them about what they do. I also got some good general advice as well. 3) Does the company 'smell bad'. This was something I didn't really use until I was applying/in the process of getting hired. I would keep my nose out for bad signs. (looking at you Cerner (Great Engineers I chatted with, but their recruiting was a nightmare to deal with, but that may of just been me)). If you can't tell, I did my best to logically choose and look at data in a very organized fashion. This was due to the amount of data that I knew I was going to manually be mulling over. I needed a way to figure out to to translate my research/feelings of one company to the research/feelings of another. (Also, you have no reason to believe me, but I did get to last round interviews with Google. I never even applied with them. They reached out to me via LinkedIn. At first I was like 'This must be spam trying to phish me or something', nope real deal. I was keeping a Blog on Blogger about Software Engineering, School, and other semi-professional things. I blame that for them reaching out to me.) |