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The résumé and cold reach-out template a Googler used to land a software engineering job

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Software engineer Goutam Nair is a software engineer at Google working on AI applications.

He shared with BI the exact résumé he submitted in his job application and the networking template he used in LinkedIn cold reach-outs to recruiters.

Nair says he wishes he'd more clearly done this in his Google job application.

"Compared to the other companies that I did interview with, Google is a lot more focused on if you do understand the problem and are able to solve it from first principles as opposed to just needing to give a perfect solution," he said. "They care if you can solve the problem, if you're able to think through it, rather than having just memorized something that you've seen before." Read the original article on Business Insider .