How To Break Into Big Tech As A Software Engineer

Alex Chiou
6 min readMay 22, 2021
It’s all about working for a company that’s worth more than the entire GDP of Switzerland

I was originally going to include this in the my comprehensive guide on getting a software engineer job, but I ultimately decided against it as that article was getting quite long and, as you’ll find out from this article, there really is no secret sauce to breaking into Big Tech. However, there are some aspects that make the process of getting into these companies unique, so let’s cover them.

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Alex Chiou

Empowering thousands of engineers @ Tech Career Growth. Ex-Robinhood, Facebook, Course Hero, PayPal. Built apps with 2.5 million+ installs for fun.