[vechagup]

Having a current employee add your resume to an ATS as a referral is the most efficient route. Around SF at least it's not particularly hard to find someone willing to do that even if they hardly know you. This sort of networking is likely harder elsewhere, but perhaps not by much.

Simply uploading your resume to a large tech company's website will rarely get you anywhere, is what I've heard from recruiters.

[mettamage]

Ah, so that's what I've been doing wrong for 18 months. Thanks! I'll be putting this to good use :)

[jephir]

Second this. Internal referral is the most reliable way to get in the door in my experience.