I think that the answer is, "you can't, actually." (I worked at a MAAMA for 3 years). The problem, as I kept pointing out to anyone who would listen at my BigCorp, was that about 80% of what was necessary to know was what one colleague called 'tribal knowledge'. This is just a weird way of saying, "we couldn't be bothered to write it down, you have to know a guy." Incidentally, aside from being inefficient and bus-fa…
This. There is certainly a Catch-22 here - to get hired by a Tech Giant, one ideally needs the knowledge of how to solve problems at Tech Giant scale, but that really only comes after being hired at a Tech Giant that has the kind of money and 'tribal knowledge' that's needed to teach one how to solve problems at Tech Giant scale (sorry, but your average community college or business really can't provide that!). On a much smaller scale, the same can be said about many professions, including the trades, but an electrical contractor will be less persnickety about giving a chance to an 'apprentice' than a Tech Giant that's really only interested in hiring employees who they think can on average contribute $1+ million in revenue to the company. If you still want to work for Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Amazon though, you can always apply to be a contract worker thru one of their vendors (coder/tester, security guard, delivery person, food service worker, etc.).