How to get your NEXT big-tech job (FAANG, Microsoft, etc.)

Once you've got a big tech job, it's easier to find new ones. Based on 30 years at Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etc., here's advice on how to switch jobs from one big tech company to another.

Table of Contents
00:00 - Intro
00:51 - Covered elsewhere
01:27 - Best time to move
02:46 - Are you ready?
04:18 - Identify companies
06:56 - Getting interviews
08:12 - Screening
08:40 - Challenges for senior candidates
09:44 - Be positive
10:28 - Open and honest
11:18 - Talk money later
12:37 - In summary

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[doduykhanh]

Definitely useful advices. Thank you John!

[pyserialkiller]

I John! I love your videos. I would like to have your advice. I just landed an offer at Amazon as L5. I was very excited to join, the team responsibilities are awesome, the manager and the team looks chill and friendly and the wlb looks good. But I have recently heard a lot of horror stories about culture at Amazon and I am starting to get affraid it wont be as good as I think. What do you think about Amazon’s culture? Do you think it’s likely to have an experience similar to those stories? Thanks in advance!

[tungvu]

really love your video, do u write blog or sth?, I would love to read too

[utuber]

Hi John, I came across your youtube playlist on reddit and have been binge watching your videos ever since . This is some really good content.

I worked 6+ years as a generalist software engineer (straight out of college) in the QA department of a small company where I wore many hats mainly in automation, performance, build & release and lately devops . I quit my job few months ago due to burnout and wish to switch to devops as that's the work I liked the most . But I don't have experience with working in big teams as I was the sole person on my team for 3 years and with some hot devops tools (like kubernetes).

What do you think I should do to boost my chances of getting a job in big tech as a devops/ cloud adjacent engineer?

I have been working on
:Datastructures
:Multiple small and one live devops project on my github
:A blog to document my project and portfolio

[mustafaabaas]

Hello Sir,

I work as a QA Engineer at Siemens, I have a lot of automation workload, but I've found myself leaning towards software development way more than QA.
When should I move? Is spending more time as a QA decrease my chances of getting a software development job?