One night in a bout of frustration with my then-current job, I started searching message boards for names of products/companies in my field of side-project interest (mobile development).
I then Emailed several of these places my resume, and within a half-hour I heard back from one of them. I guess you could say the rest is history.
(At the same time, I also ended up in the application process with Amazon. However, I probably flunked their tech phone screen on account of not being able to cough up minesweeper-relates algorithms off the top of my head.)
One thing I really liked about the company that responded to me was that they actually treated me as an individual, with existing projects worthy of interview discussion, rather than just another faceless resume in a pile.
I then Emailed several of these places my resume, and within a half-hour I heard back from one of them. I guess you could say the rest is history.
(At the same time, I also ended up in the application process with Amazon. However, I probably flunked their tech phone screen on account of not being able to cough up minesweeper-relates algorithms off the top of my head.)
One thing I really liked about the company that responded to me was that they actually treated me as an individual, with existing projects worthy of interview discussion, rather than just another faceless resume in a pile.