How difficult is it to get an offer from FAANG/bigtech
For the context I graduated 3 years ago, have been working as test automation engineer. I would say I have a good understanding of the basics due to my degree but I never worked as a software engineer. However, in my test automation roles I used to develop internal tools to used for testing in addition to the writing the testcases in either Java or Typescript.
I feel like my career is not well stablished. I only worked in small to medium sized companies.
I really want to compensate for that. I want to get a software engineer position in a big tech company by the end of this year.
Am I being so optimistic?
How likely I can get to be invited for an interview with such profile?
I was planning to focus on the leetcode problems and read the system design interview book.
What else I need to focus at?