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I've always found those unsexy backwater jobs to be much harder to bag than the usual big tech cos.

- They tend to work with recruiters who don't specialize in tech and end up rejecting resumes for superfluous reasons like not having "experience with JSON". These recruiters are also vulnerable to dishonest/targeted resumes and skip over people with relevant experience in alternative technologies.

- They only hire one or two people at a time. A big tech org could be picking up 5-10 people every week through the same JD.

- Nepotism runs rampant here because there isn't a standard org-wide interview process involving multiple people. Often the whole thing is CYA theatre when the HM already knows who they want to hire, or they need to immigrate a neighbor or relative.