Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
As a hiring manager, the things that stand out to me in your post:<p>- You said you quit a job at EA, quit a job at IBM, dropped out of college your freshman year. You may have valid reasons for leaving each of these, but you have to see this from the manager&#x27;s perspective: You had 3 different great opportunities that all came to a dead end at the beginning of your career. You need an alternate narrative.<p>- You talk about applying to Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Palantir, and other companies known to be very competitive, yet the only real job experience you list in your post is low level customer support. Nothing wrong with aiming high, but you need to also be applying to jobs that are a logical next step in your career. It&#x27;s extraordinarily difficult to jump from customer support to FAANG engineer, so have a backup plan.<p>- You spoofed e-mails to manipulate executives into meetings. This kind of thing sounds clever in movies or from anecdotes in the 90s or 2000s, but in this era everyone is on high alert for phishing attacks and security breaches. Read the room, and don&#x27;t commit computer fraud during your application process. Big companies have systems in place to catch these things and you&#x27;ll get blocked in short order.<p>- No mention of your network. Do you have any contacts or friends or acquaintances anywhere in the industry? Even people you knew briefly from school? People who you worked with in the past who moved up? Reach out and ask if they have any advice for your job search. Going forward, make a point to stay on good terms with the people around you. You can help each other as your careers progress.