It seems employee referrals are not working these days

It’s pretty well known that Microsoft referrals are useless

I even doubt most of the open positions are real or not. The companies that setup recently in India would have real open positions I presume.

Microsoft HRs will take at-least 3-4 months before reviewing referral

Employees referrals won't work in companies like Apple, Microsoft , etc. Unless the person contacts the hiring manager and recommended you personally, these referrals seldom lead to interviews.

I believe referrals are no longer effective because people get referrals pretty easily from fishbowl, online platforms without actually knowing the person. This makes the referral pool similar to regular pool, given the less conversion ratio because of this, companies have started taking referrals with less priority as compared to earlier times. The kind of actual referral that works when someone would personally speak to hiring manager and put a good word for you. Which i think is actually referring someone.

The concept of referrals via fishbowl, etc due to greed of referral bonus has caused this mode of recruitment almost useless or less effective.

However one should keep on trying with referrals as it might just work sometime. Rest, i guess best effective method is to use connects, explore and understand open roles in companies you are targeting and then reaching out to HRs and hiring managers on LinkedIn to further explore and get an interview.

Everyone is aware of referrals these days. You arent the only one getting referral. Theres a large pool of referred candidates so that makes referral pretty useless unless small/midcap startups

Can DM me, several openings at Highspot in Hyderabad location. Someone rightly said, newly setup offices are more willing to hire currently. Look up on the careers portal and let me know if you find anything that matches.

Referrals usually work well in sub 500 people tech orgs.

Referral usually works great in case of startups. Everyone takes referral for a big tech, so application count still remains huge.

Referral != interview, forget about getting job 🥲