Senior SWE Job Search Process

Thought I'd share my job search process in case it's helpful to anyone. Just started a new position and was looking for like 6 months before signing my offer. I was already employed, so I was searching pretty casually and really only taking interviews for things that sounded interesting. I had a couple requirements in my search, so I generally rejected anything that didn't meet these. * Remote preferred, would have been willing to relocate, but would have have to be for a big tech like offer. * Needed to be a base of 180-190+. * Preferred public companies * Tech, or at least tech forward company * I generally reject any take home tests General Info (This is all a bit rough number's wise, I didn't keep super exact metrics): * 30 cold applications -> \~10 of which turned into initial HR interviews * Around 45 recruiter reachouts that I thought might be promising -> I rejected over half of those for various reasons. * Got Hiring Manager rejected from about 10, not sure on the exact ratio of cold applications to recruiter reachouts there. * Went to 15 tech screens, general mix of LC and more general coding tests. * I didn't do any prep at all, so I failed quite a few there and ended up taking 4 onsites. * Failed 2 onsites, got 1 offer frozen, and accepted the last offer which I just started Notes: The general interview process/difficulty was about the same as I have experienced in the past. I had a general mix of leetcode like questions and more general coding questions. The offer I accepted asked mostly LC style questions, though there were more practical questions asked as well. HM's seem to be more picky and quick to reject. I've never really not gotten through to a tech screen from an HR screen, and I got HM rejected a few times over this process. I hope this might be helpful to anyone during their search. Let me know if you have any questions! \-- Snakey Diagram: [https://i.imgur.com/DkOIVim.png](https://i.imgur.com/DkOIVim.png) Edit: Ended up at a fully remote company. Around 8 YoE doing general full stack web type work. A couple of medium size ish techish companies on my resume, but def none of the big hitters