Choose well the company you want to work for. Factor in the feeling you're getting about the people in the company, the product & mission, compensation and benefits.
Once you know this is the company you want to work for - do everything needed to get hired.
Filtering by whichever company requires the least effort to get into will lead to a bias towards companies with lower quality staff - because those will be less selective.
IMO this is terrible advice.
My advice:
Filtering by whichever company requires the least effort to get into will lead to a bias towards companies with lower quality staff - because those will be less selective.
That's not why I'm saying but thanks.