The Broken Job Search: Why Applying to Big Tech is a Trap

If you’re applying to hundreds of jobs and hearing nothing back, it probably isn’t you. The way the funnel is set up works against you. Big companies dominate job boards like LinkedIn partly because they pay for placement. A single listing at a well-known corporation can pull over a thousand applications, and a lot of them get auto-filtered before a person ever looks. Even a strong resume struggles to surface in that volume, especially for roles that often get filled internally or through referrals before the public pile is touched. ...

November 30, 2025