When someone from your network can vouch for you, the door opens. Here's your inbox.
"Hi Priya — I saw your hostel-A photos. I'm graduating, your old hostel-mate. Can you intro me to your team?"
Open Decline politely"Heard about an SRE opening. Would love a 15-min chat."
"My company wants to sponsor next year's tech fest."
Sent yesterday · waiting on Meera
CSE '24 · final-year · same hostel-A 2010 batch (yes, that hostel)
"30-min call, then if it goes well, your referral to the Stripe Payments team."
CGPA 8.4 · 2 hackathons · published 1 paper. Full profile →
Intros are scored by shared memories first, then batch proximity, then dept. The "we shared a hostel" signal beats every LinkedIn weak-tie metric.