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by hnruss
2316 days ago
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Agreed. I've never had much difficulty finding software development work at smaller companies. If I have the required skills that they are looking for, I'm usually confident that I'll get an interview. An interview at a smaller company is likely to be much shorter and easier than the algorithm-based interviews at larger companies. The chance of an offer is also much higher. The pay at smaller companies is still good enough for you to live comfortably, even at the entry-level. I worked a software development internship half-time while going to college, and it was easier and more enjoyable than all of the non-programming jobs that I did before that. If you can't get a job at the companies that you want, you have no choice but to settle for something else until you have the experience and knowledge that is required. Thinking some more on it, there is another (long shot) way to get hired at a large company: start your own software company that is eventually acquired by a large company. |
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Just a heads up, that isn't how it works. If you've built a product that's good enough to be turned into a company and be bought by google/ms/etc, they don't want to hire you. They want your product. If they hired you, you'd steal away their workers to make another startup. At least that's the usual line of thinking.
Source: this happened to 3 friends of mine, whose companies were purchased by Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Working around startup folk, this is a common story.