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You are not passing the algorithm because you are not supposed to pass it. If you are going to be just blindly sending your resume to the system, nobody will ever reply to you.

What you do: 1. Find a company you want to join with an open position. 2. Create a profile on LinkedIn and nicely fill your profile. 3. Find a recruiter that works for this specific company and send them a direct message.

This needs to be a recruiter working directly for this company. You need to approach them and ask for an interview.

Companies have multiple recruiters so if one recruiter is not responding, you can contact another.

This way you will skip the algorithm.

And if you can't find a recruiter, there will be definitely an engineering manager you can contact. That works sometimes too.

I used this method about a year ago and was successful 9 out of 10 times.

I also tried blindly sending my resume about 5 years ago and got a reply only for 1 out of 100 applications.




Thank you for writing this comment so I didn’t have to.

As an additional piece, customize the resume to the job description as much as possible.


What’s the best way to find recruiters for these companies?


Look them up on linked in or google the jd for reposts




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