Also, with regards to this quote from the conclusion~<p>&gt; In the end, I didn’t get a single offer through a raw application. Every single offer came through a referral of some kind. (This I did not expect, and strongly influences the advice I’d give to a job-seeker.)<p>I don&#x27;t know if I would call TripleByte &quot;referrals&quot;....it&#x27;s not a raw application, but it&#x27;s not really the same as knowing someone at the company either. This is a separate and somewhat new category of its own, these companies like TripleByte.