[hedora]

Honestly, you're probably overqualified for an entry-level position at a FAANG. Go to an academic CS conference with FAANG employees, find some that are talking about interesting stuff, and give them your resume.

The resume funnels on websites of most large companies go straight to /dev/null. (University recruitment is another story; those usually get put toward the top of hiring managers' piles.)

[srvmshr]

Thank you for the kind words. But I don't seem to have good SWE knowhow. ML area is moving fast on rollers built by cloud enterprises, so I feel actual CS skills get overlooked by folks like us. I already graduated 2 yrs ago (University of Tokyo - FAANG presence is lesser in Japan). I will be mostly leaning on mailing people I know via PhD/LinkedIn/Twitter.

[coachdarek]

+1 to the comment on the resume funnels being a black hole.

The best option is to directly interface with recruiters. Recruiting is a numbers game at the end of the day. There are pseudo-infinite recruiters and a few applications for each company.