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How big employers actually hire

The rest of this site is government filing data: who sponsors, and what they pay. These three guides are the other half of the problem — what happens after you apply, written out stage by stage for three employers who publish enough about their process to describe it honestly.

Amazon

The Amazon hiring process, explained

The Online Assessment and how it is scored, the interview loop, the Bar Raiser's veto, and all 16 Leadership Principles with what each one is testing.

Google

How to get a job at Google

The Hiring Committee that decides without ever meeting you, what Googleyness is actually scoring, team matching, and an 8-week prep plan.

Microsoft

Writing a Microsoft resume that passes ATS

Format rules, the keywords the ATS scans for, bullets that pass both the algorithm and the recruiter, and level-specific strategy from L59 to L65+.

These are guides, not data. Everything else on this site is copied from a file a government published, and we say so on every page. These three are prose: they describe hiring processes as the employers and their candidates have publicly described them. They are not written or endorsed by those employers, and a hiring process can change without notice. Where a guide is about a company we also hold filing data for, it links to that page so you can see both.