I like this hot take

Yep, my last two jobs were

• inbound from a hiring manager who read some medium posts
• direct referral from ex colleague at a company from 4 years back

In my 12 years career span, I never had to take referrals, and am quite happy about it. I did ask for referrals from a lot of people. I am not sure how many of them actually referred me, so I kind of stopped asking referrals from people.
Most of the interview calls were from recruitment consultants, which got converted. It’s important to work on LinkedIn profile as well as resume.

I have written very few articles, but those didn’t land me any job.

good applications are still rare. For every opening there would be a thousand applications via different mediums but out of that super relevants are very few. And its very difficult to find them in the noise.

In that if you can stand out and show you truly want the job, you will most likely get attention.

Few tips if you are applying to a tech startup

• write a meaningful email or message about why and how your experience and skills are relevant to the job.

• reach out to the person responsible (not hr) for the job. Its not too difficult to find out in startups.

• Shoot that email to the founder or message on Linkdin.
  If you don't want to send entire message; just ask him who is the person with that job opening, he / she will most likely tell you.

Companies really want good people in their teams. If you can show you are a right fit, you will get attention

Don't lose hope.

I got rejected from many applications I applied through referral recently.

My last job was through an online application without referral.

Is the tweet referring to a specific area lik Dev? PM? Or all of them?

Devs have to jump through bigger hoops while PM is a meme tier job where talking your way through things matters more.

FML: can't change student tag

What is this high iq, mafia type companies ?

One question - When you say how you did it, will it not give out information about company's internal working?

Honest question: Anyone ever got a job after applying through the company website? Or even interviews?

This is true.
First job: College placements Second job: Referral from a friend Third job: Cold email
Fourth job: Referral from a friend

Over 500 applications maybe over my career, somehow not a single online jobsite application worked :)

Yep, my last two jobs were

• inbound from a hiring manager who read some medium posts
• direct referral from ex colleague at a company from 4 years back