[bckr]

A strategy my friend used was to get the "soft offer" and then shop around for a team for as long as it takes to find one that excited him.

[garmanarnar]

That's literally just Google's hiring practices. There is a team matching phase for all engineers.

[bckr]

Cool. This was at AWS.

[garmanarnar]

Oh neat. That is less common as it's usually the teams hiring devs directly.