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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Five techies share the résumés that helped them get coveted roles at Big Tech companies.</li><li>Some emphasized following résumé norms, such as keeping newer achievements at the top.</li></ul>For Ankit Virmani, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-job-resume-tips-machine-learning-specialist-career-switch-2024-4">revamping his résumé</a> was one of the first steps to break into tech after a career in consulting.He craved working on projects with technical depth and wanted to focus on building instead of selling.On weekends and after wrapping up a day at his full-time Deloitte job in 2020, Virmani spent three to four hours practicing coding every night and another two hours reading up about technology.With his mentors' feedback, he created a résumé that helped him land him a role at Google a few months later.Business Insider spoke to Virmani and four other US-based employees at Google, Meta, and Salesforce, among other companies, about how they crafted their résumés to best present their skills and their personalities.The group — three engineers, a product manager, and a machine learning architect — approached their résumés differently. One broke the traditional single-page rule, while another added a QR code to help track applications — but they all landed Big Tech jobs.<h2 id="889c24b7-f717-4424-a366-f84cda0134fe">Machine learning architect at Google</h2>Virmani said his résumé was different from most people in the tech industry. First, it broke away from the one-page rule many career experts and professionals follow because he wanted an uncluttered and neat presentation.He said he also avoided overly highlighting individual contributions on his résumé, and instead writes about what his team did."In my experience, Google highly, highly appreciates honesty and humility. That's the culture of the company — we know that nothing great gets achieved by an individual," he said.<h2 id="f5551e82-e89d-4c81-b153-dac7934d42d5">Software engineer at Google</h2>Sahil Gaba, a software engineer at Google, said he liked two main things on his <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/resume-tips-google-software-engineer-skills-experience-careers-software-tech-2024-3">2021 résumé, which landed him $300,000</a> in starting pay.He recommended de-emphasizing older achievements like education by putting them on the side and showcasing more relevant sections, like work experiences and skills, in more prominent spots."I've worked pretty hard for all those degrees, but I know that in the context of the job that I'm looking for, those degrees are not that important," Gaba said.He also included a section called "interests," where he listed a couple of hobbies because it makes for a good icebreaker in <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-interview-big-tech-coding-skills-sofware-engineering-sahil-gaba-2024-3">interviews</a>."If you find something that overlaps, it starts a discussion, and it leads to a warm start," he said.<h2 id="f1195d03-e2ec-469b-999e-a982aa518171">Software engineer at Meta</h2>Hemant Pandey, a software engineer at Meta, said he has been using the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/resume-engineer-meta-sap-salesforce-tesla-amazon-linkedin-jobs-branding-2024-4">same résumé template</a> since he graduated from his master's program in 2017.The format helped him land his previous jobs at Tesla, SAP, Salesforce, and his current role at Meta, where he was <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-software-engineer-negotiated-salary-big-tech-meta-tesla-salesforce-2024-5">offered about $520,000 in starting pay.</a>One thing he consistently keeps on his résumé is his college GPA. Even though it's not impressive, he thinks it makes a great story for an interview."I generally share how I bombed my first semester and was intimidated," he said about getting a low GPA and almost losing an internship he was offered.He talks about how he had to push himself to keep up with more experienced students and eventually scored better in the following semesters."This makes a good growth and learning-from-failures story."<h2 id="22df03ed-53fc-4b29-b990-023924c8194f">Product manager at Google</h2>Yung-Yu Lin has been in tech for 18 years and has changed career paths thrice. He started in hardware engineering, moved to software, and became a product manager — his dream role.Throughout his career journey in the US, he's been <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-write-big-tech-resume-google-meta-product-manager-2024-6">updating one résumé </a>he first created as an MBA student. It landed Lin his roles at Meta, Visa, and PayPal, and, in 2022, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/product-manager-negotiate-former-engineer-salary-meta-paypal-visa-google-2024-7">a $350,000 pay package</a> at Google.His top tip is segregating companies and customizing résumés to save time. When he applied for jobs as an MBA, he devised a system to categorize every opportunity into one of three tiers and changed his résumé in different ways."Tier one is about 20 to 30 different positions that I really, really want," Lin said. For these companies, he customized not only the "additional information" section but also the bullet points under work experience."Tier two is about 30 to 50 positions. They're highly correlated to the tier-one positions, but maybe the company or the industry is not my top tier, but I will still take it if I get lucky enough to get out to get the offer," he said. "I don't have so much time to really customize every single tier-two application — so that's the type when I customize only 'additional information.'"Tier three includes the remaining 200 to 300 positions, which Lin saw as possible, but backup, jobs."I pretty much just use one single résumé to apply for all the tier-three positions," he said.<h2 id="eaa6c074-aafd-4d0d-a792-ac48edf11118">Software engineer at Salesforce</h2>Anup Ghatage landed his first job after his master's degree by handing out <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-engineer-shares-resume-hack-that-helped-land-first-job-2024-9">customized résumés that had QR on them </a>and tracking down the companies that looked at his résumé.Previously at Cisco and SAP, the software engineer now works for Salesforce, where he interviews other candidates.He tries not to over-customize his résumé and said he did not include small projects from years ago just to seem in line with a role."I would rather speak confidently about something tangential or something maybe unrelated but still in the tech field" instead of over-customizing and then fumbling at the <a target="_blank" rel="" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-meta-product-manager-prepares-big-tech-interview-questions-manager-2024-8">interview stage</a>.He also liked that his résumé included links to his personal website and project work on GitHub. Instead of sending a long résumé, the links can provide more information if a hiring manager is interested.Do you work in tech, consulting, or finance and have a story to share about your personal résumé journey? Please reach out at <a target="_blank" href="mailto:shubhangigoel@insider.com">shubhangigoel@insider.com</a>.

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Companies like SAP, General Mills, Snapdeal and Marico are scouting for best talent to strengthen their respective technology competencies, especially in mobility, big data and analytics. 
 
They are aggressively hiring techies from India and abroad. SAP plans to add 1,000 engineers in next one year to its lab in India, its second-largest globally. For this, it will increase the intake of graduates from the country's premier engineering colleges. 
 
Due to shortage of niche talent, the company will look for techies overseas, including Silicon Valley and Europe. 
 
Economic Times reported that about 70% of the German software company's 6,500 employees in India are part of its R&amp;D and product engineering, while 20% are in consulting and implementation and the rest in sales and marketing. 
 
"Hires will be largely in R&amp;D and product engineering. In the past 75% of professionals with experience in SAP technology were hired and only 25% hiring was niche skills. This year the ratio will change to 50:50, between conventional SAP hiring and high-end technology-data scientists, research analysts and architects," Anil Warrier, director and India head of talent acquisition at SAP, told ET. 
 
SAP is looking to both groom talent from within and new hires. Apart from offering stocks to attract talent, the company is banking on other benefits. "SAP offers its employees work across the globe. Here, you can easily work in four or five locations. High percentage of our leadership team is people who have joined us as college graduates," Warrier told the financial daily. 
 
India’s online marketplace Snapdeal wants to double the number of people in its technology team by appointing 1,000 people by the end of this year, including talent from Silicon Valley to build a product and engineering leadership team. 
 
"We will bring in the best of talent in the space of technology as technology is the backbone for runining a big enterprise like ours," Saurabh Nigam, Vice President of HR at Snapdeal, told ET. 
 
Meanwhile, Managing Director at General Mills Mainak Dhar said the company intends to up the manufacturing at its Indian plant for which it was required to have more talent around technology. 
 
Marico is looking for experts in cutting edge technologies to further build its consumer product offerings. “We are looking at talent beyond India especially to build our strength around innovation and R&amp;D," Ashutosh Telang, Marico's chief human resources officer, told financial daily. 
 
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<ul><li>The tech industry has seen more than 200,000 <keyword id="6357067" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="layoffs" source="Orion">layoffs</keyword> since the start of 2022.</li><li>Instead of performance, the focus for layoffs is more on eliminating redundant roles that no longer add a major value to the organization.</li><li>Some of the red flags an employee should look out for are a decrease in hiring, budget cuts and changes in management.</li></ul>Bipin Singh, a business development manager at Byju’s with over 11 years experience in the EdTech industry was laid off last month after a stint of 1.5 years at the company. In his LinkedIn post he mentioned about the layoff and urged everyone to reach out to him with job offers or if not, like share and comment on his post to increase reach. Anil <keyword id="906861" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="sahani" source="Orion">Sahani</keyword>, a software engineer, lost his job in Accenture recently .“I was one of the first ones to let go as I was a contract employee and also did not have any notice period. The layoffs are still on.” Singh and Sahani are among the thousands of employees who have been affected by tech layoffs in India. Google trend data, which reflects what people search for, shows that between January 22-28 this year, the term ‘layoff’ was at its peak popularity of 100, while between January 23 to January 29 last year, it was just at five. This is not surprising because layoffs are being reported majorly in the media and almost every other post on Linkedin is talking about layoffs. It all started with the news that the big tech giants like Amazon and Google parent Alphabet were laying off in large numbers. While Alphabet laid off 12,000 people, the Amazon layoffs affected more than 18,000 people. Microsoft said it will lay off 10,000 people by the end of the third quarter of 2023 and even SAP and IBM have started laying off employees. It seems it is almost like a contagion that is spreading rapidly like wildfire. The Indian situation: Which brings us to the question: Is the situation as bad in India? Layoffs are now a reality in India too. Reports suggest that around 21,000 techies have lost their jobs in the last three to four months. In the third week of January, Wipro fired more than 400 freshers for failing performance tests. While Amazon has laid off 1,000 of its employees in India, IBM and SAP are also laying off employees, affecting their employees in India as well. Very recently, Byju’s laid off 1,000 people, in a second round of layoffs in February. Sivaprasad N, vice president &amp; business head, TeamLease Digital, a staffing solutions company, puts the number of layoffs in the tech industry at more than 2,00,000 since 2022. Over 21,000 employees <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/70-plus-indian-startups-show-exit-door-to-21k-techies-more-pink-slips-coming/articleshow/97411761.cms?">have been laid off </a>by 70 startups in the past 3-4 months including from unicorns like BYJU'S, <keyword id="6354720" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="ola" source="Orion">Ola</keyword>, MPL, Innovaccer, Unacademy, Vedantu, Cars24, OYO, Meesho, Udaan and many more. Anuj Gupta, who has over 10 years of experience in SEO, has lost his job in edtech company upGrad and is a part of the current tech and marketing layoff wave. The layoff situation in India is currently more of a spill-over effect of shake-ups in the West. Unlike the funding winter that hit the Indian funded tech startups cohort in 2022, the current layoffs by big labels are largely corrective talent adjustments. “Despite potential opportunities coming our way due to global shakeups, it is prudent for India Inc. to treat the current layoffs as a tip of the iceberg,” says <keyword id="138078" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="kamal-karanth" source="Orion">Kamal Karanth</keyword>, CoFounder, Xpheno, a specialist staffing company. He adds that enterprises, especially in tech, will benefit from remaining alert and conservative on costs for at least two quarters. Agrees Sivaprasad, “Companies are battling a slowdown in demand after a hiring frenzy. No company is certain to avoid significant cutbacks in such an economic environment. We are witnessing a significant drop in tech hiring unlike previous years as companies are only doing selective hiring for critical projects. It looks like the trend will continue for some time.” Many IT majors have announced mass layoffs in the last couple of months, quoting factors like overhiring, an impending recession and geopolitical conflicts. “We expect businesses to exhibit caution in hiring and workforce management through a major part of 2023,” <keyword id="13896318" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="sachin-alug" source="Orion">Sachin Alug</keyword>, CEO, NLB Services - a global technology &amp; digital talent solutions company. Delhi-based Pankaj Kumar, laid off from a software company this month, says that one day he got a message saying that the company was restructuring and that it was his last day. “However, we were forced to resign and also we received very little in the name of assistance as promised.” Kumar feels that most startups today have no clue about manpower requirements and just hire to show their investors that they are doing well without having an idea of how they can sustain themselves in crucial times. Tech jobs have been the most affected: As discussed, tech companies, especially IT firms, are very vulnerable to an impending recession in the US. “The tech sector has always been highly sensitive to economic cycles, and the current economic downturn could have a significant impact on these companies. A recession could lead to decreased consumer spending, reduced corporate investment, and layoffs, which could all hit tech companies hard,” says <keyword id="328697" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="sandeep-budhiraja" source="Orion">Sandeep Budhiraja</keyword>, Co-founder, Executive Director and Chief People Officer - BYLD Group which provides HR and Business productivity solutions, Additionally, the US market is a major source of revenue for many tech companies, so a recession here could have a widespread impact on global operations. Finally, any disruption to the global supply chain could further disrupt tech companies, as many rely on components and materials sourced from around the world. “The sectors that may be most affected, other than the technology, are telecommunications, financial services and retail. The telecommunications sector could be hit by reduced investment in infrastructure and lower customer demand. The financial services sector could be adversely affected by a decrease in credit availability and tightened lending standards, while the retail sector could suffer from decreased consumer spending,” adds Budhiraja. Everyone is vulnerable: “Instead of performance, the focus for layoffs is more on eliminating redundant roles that no longer add major value to the organization. Usually, mass layoffs affect employees invariably regardless of their performance but in organizations that choose to let go of a selected few, performers at a certain level tend to be the target,” says Alug. The primary causes of layoffs are the foreseeable recession and the geopolitical scenario which have led to inflation, impacting many industries. Prominent players in the IT and Technology domain are being cautious to ensure profitability and better predictability of business. Agrees Karanth, “The larger layoffs related to enterprise strategy and austerity are mostly across the ranks and ratings of performance. Such layoffs related to macroeconomic movements are typically steamrollers on entire divisions, geographies and business units. While each enterprise has their own pattern of priority on the layoffs, the high cost and high volume headcounts typically come under the lens faster.” Look out for red flags: “Layoffs in a situation like now are largely written on the wall. It is often the speed and style of a layoff that's a surprise to talent, and not the layoff by itself,” says Karanth. Some of the red flags an employee should look out for are a decrease in hiring, budget cuts and changes in management. “Additionally, if a company is reducing or eliminating certain departments or projects, it may be a sign that layoffs are coming. If there are rumours of layoffs or if employees are being asked to take unpaid leave, this could also be a sign that layoffs are imminent. Finally, if the company is not meeting its financial goals or is experiencing a downturn in business, layoffs may be a possibility,” says Alug. Hiring remains slow: “Many of those who lost their jobs are still looking for work, as nearly every major corporation has put a freeze on new hiring due to global macroeconomic conditions and recession fears. We are witnessing a significant drop in tech hiring unlike previous years as companies are only doing selective hiring for critical projects. Looks like the trend would continue for some time,” says Sivaprasad. However Karanth feels that while tech hiring has slowed down, there are opportunities for talent who are flexible and agile to look beyond their domain. The non-tech sector's talent demand has been compensating well for tech's hiring slowdown. <keyword id="2838370" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="shraddha-jain" source="Orion">Shraddha Jain</keyword>, who is also known as 'Aiyyo Shraddha' on social media, posted a hilarious video on Instagram, where she slammed companies for laying off employees despite making a profit. "At the company offsite, we celebrated the company tripling its profit in a year. What happened? A month later we are so poor. Who robbed us?" she asked. While these are questions that reflect the grim reality of large scale layoffs, employees should brace themselves for tough times ahead. 2023 will be a turbulent ride.

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