> Instead use an inside source, an employee you know at the company you are interested in I have been reading this advice for a decade, and I have been working

> Instead use an inside source, an employee you know at the company you are interested in I have been reading this advice for a decade, and I have been working as a software engineer as a decade, and I don't know anyone who got a job this way. I'm not doubting it happens. It's just interesting that this obviously seems very common in some software engineering circles, but is virtually unheard of in others.