How to Search for a Job

1. Go to Linkedin.

2. Go to Jobs

   

3. Type your desired position: Software Engineer, Software Engineering Developer, Software Developer, and choose the location to be European Economic Area (for all of EU), or Canada, or UK or the country you desire to work in.

4. Choose your experience level (internship for students, Entry level for fresh grads) then click search

   

5. Besides the Big Tech companies (Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta) you can find a list of well known companies, here are +100 companies to apply to that are well known and will be nice to have on your CV.

   1. AMD

   2. Accenture

   3. Adobe

   4. AirBnb

   5. Airtable

   6. Atlassian

   7. Audi

   8. Autodesk

   9. Automation Anywhere

   10. BMW

   11. Bitpanda

   12. Bloomberg

   13. Bolt

   14. Box

   15. ByteDance

   16. Caldendly

   17. CircleCI

   18. Cisco

   19. Citadel

   20. Citi

   21. Cloudera

   22. Cloudflare

   23. Cockroach labs

   24. Collibra

   25. CrowdStrike

   26. Databricks

   27. Datadog

   28. Deliotte

   29. Delivery Hero

   30. Deutche Bank

   31. Disney+

   32. Docker

   33. Docusign

   34. DropBox

   35. Elastic Search

   36. Expedia

   37. Fastly

   38. FiveTran

   39. Flix

   40. Fujistu

   41. GitHub

   42. GitLab

   43. Goldman Sachs

   44. Grammarly

   45. Hashicorp

   46. Huawei

   47. HubSpot

   48. Hulu

   49. ING

   50. Improbable

   51. Infoblox

   52. Intel

   53. Intercom

   54. JP Morgan & Chase Co.

   55. Jane Street

   56. Jane street

   57. Jetbrains

   58. Kibana

   59. Lego

   60. LinkedIn

   61. Master card

   62. Message Bird

   63. MongoDB

   64. NetScope

   65. Netlify

   66. Netskope

   67. New Relic

   68. Notion

   69. Nvidia

   70. Okta

   71. OneTrust

   72. Optiver

   73. Oracle

   74. PTC

   75. Palo Alto Networks

   76. Paypal

   77. Plaid

   78. Pleo

   79. Qualcom

   80. Qualtrics

   81. Red hat

   82. Reddit

   83. Replit

   84. Revolute

   85. Riot Games

   86. Rubrik

   87. SAP

   88. SalesForce

   89. Samsara

   90. Siemens

   91. Skyscanner

   92. Snowflake

   93. Spotify

   94. Square

   95. Stripe

   96. SumUp

   97. SurveyMonkey

   98. Tesla

   99. Toast

   100. Tripadvisor

   101. TrustPilot

   102. Twillio

   103. Uber

   104. UiPath

   105. VMWare

   106. Vectara

   107. Visa

   108. Waymo

   109. Workday

   110. Yelp

   111. Zapier

   112. http://Booking.com

   113. http://Kiwi.com

   114. http://Momentive.ai

   115. http://Takeway.com

How to Increase your network

Let’s say you want to work at Snowflake

1. Go to Linkedin

2. Click on the search bar (don’t type anything)

3. Press Enter

4. This will direct you to an option of posts, jobs, products

   

5. Click on People

6. Click on All Filters at the very right

   

7. Scroll a bit, click on add company and type Snowflake

   

   

8. Scroll down to keywords and type in Software Engineer in the Title text field

   

9. Click Show results

   1. You can also filter by location where you want to work at

      

10. Send Connection Requests to the people who came up in the results

How to ask for a referal

1. People are drown towards people from the same region/country/city/university .. you can filter by universities in your country and send them connection request.

   1. They know how it feels like to be a student at the same city/country/university and they are more likely to refer you.

2. Find a job that you are interested at in the company where that person works at.

3. do NOT apply.

4. Make sure your LinkedIn is nice and updated and have listed your skills, experiences, education, projects as the person will check your LinkedIn.

5. Message the person with the following text:

Hello x,

I hope this message finds you well.

My name is y, I’m a student/software engineer and I wish is to work at (name of the company).

I’ve seen this position (url of the position) and I believe it suits me skills and I’m fit for the role. I want to ask you if you could refer me to it if you deem me worthy of it.

I’m attaching my resume to this message.

P.s. It is totally understandable if you don’t see me fit to the role, I thank you anyway for taking time to read my message and I wish you a nice rest of day :))

Best regards,

y

6. You don’t have to copy exactly the words but basically make sure that they are not obligated, people tend to do a task if they feel they are not forced to do it.

How to message recruiters

1. Repeat the same steps to filter out people who work at the company but don’t include location nor school.

2. Change to title to Talent as sometimes the recruiter’s name is Talent sourcer or Recruiter

   

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3. Also send connections to the recruiters.

4. Send the following message

Hello x,

My name is y, I’m a student/software engineer and I wish is to work at (name of the company).

I have just applied to this role (url of the role) and I’m looking forward to hearing from your side and be part of the team :))

Have a lovely day,

y

Remember, LinkedIn is a powerful tool, networking is needed and you need recruiters on your side.

Also remeber, if you messaged 50 people and 49 of them ignored you, you need only 1 to reply with yes I will refer you :))

Hope you find this useful ^_^