Networking is the only staging step on the list, which supports the titular concern about bias. Every other condensing step requires good judgement and luck, which isn’t helpful as generic advice.
Also, networking is vital, however mostly to develop a filter for BS and BS slingers (money slingers or "rich" people are deceptively good at BS slinging). I had a friend who would go to meetups and befriend everyone, in my experience this is not really productive and will lead to being taken advantage of.
Isn't being an intern "early in your career"? I don't understand the logic above.
If you are a junior engineer in a fast growing org you will work your ass off, being forced to cut corners to ship quickly, then rather than promote you the org will simply hire people above you. And you will find that what you learned was not a solid foundation to move onwards.
Anecdata: junior engineer going through this process right now. Hard to move to a new company due to the specificity of the skills I developed and can't move up as they just bring in new people.