Hey #Friend ,
A FAANG interview is the worst possible proof your resume actually works. I know that sounds wrong. Stay with me. "Sachin, please don't change my resume. I got interviews at Amazon, Meta, and Google with this same one." I hear this almost every week. Here's the part nobody says out loud: FAANG companies interview almost everyone decent. By design. They have the budget. They have the recruiters. They cast a massive net and let the interview loop do the filtering. A FAANG screening call says nothing about your resume. The startups and mid-size companies hiring 80% of the workforce work the opposite way. One recruiter. 400 applications. 6 seconds per resume. No "looking past the document." Your FAANG-approved resume is failing those filters silently. No callback. No feedback. No idea why. Here's what this means for you right now: Stop using FAANG callbacks as proof your resume works. The bar is too low to tell you anything useful. Run the 6-second test. Hand your resume to a stranger. Time it. If they can't tell you the role you want and your strongest result in 6 seconds — the resume is broken. Flip the responsibility-to-outcome ratio. "Owned the checkout pipeline" tells me nothing. "Cut checkout latency 38% and added $2.1M in recovered revenue" tells me everything. Most resumes are 90/10. Flip it. Get feedback from a non-FAANG recruiter. Not your friend. Not your manager. A working recruiter at the size of company you actually want to work at. Worth ten FAANG callbacks.
If your job search is stuck — if FAANG is calling but everyone else is silent — the resume is the problem. Not the market. Not the economy. The resume.
Reply and tell me: where are you right now in your job search?
Just one line. I read every reply personally.
Talk soon, Sachin Rajgire Founder, Wynisco Inc. sachin@wynisco.com
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