Reddit Experience · 2018 Q1 · Bay Area

I created a search engine of Silicon Valley technology companies, which includes their glassdoor rating, and links to their career pages

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Hi, when I carried out my plan to move to Silicon Valley, I wanted to find the best companies to work for. I built this website which helped me with multiple goals: * I picked up system design skills.

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Hi, when I carried out my plan to move to Silicon Valley, I wanted to find the best companies to work for. I built this website which helped me with multiple goals: * I picked up system design skills. Many interviewers wanted to learn more about this project, so for many interviews I whiteboarded out the entire architecture, and talked about how I would optimize and scale it out. * It gave me a comprehensive list of every technology company in the Bay Area * Instead of doing the typical online application, I found the emails of recruiters and showed them the site. More than half of the time, I would get a phone screen from this I've been browsing this sub for years, and a lot of the things I learned here played a crucial role in landing at my dream job. I'd like to share the site and data it with you guys. The website I built: [http://jobmate.io](http://jobmate.io) The data to this website: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wEOBuKXFc8Lbim6uz9FfVFuIqDa38JPgp94fe_gcAyw I hope that it gives you an idea of how to think outside the box in applying for a job! Would be happy to answer questions here.
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System Design Networking