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They Rejected Us
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#2Subtitled "A Compendium Of 'Ha! I Sure Showed you!'".
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#3I'm really surprised at how they managed to get so many big names from the open source community to share their stories.
Maybe success isn't tied to grinding out a bunch of leetcode?
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#4Maybe it's just me but it sure does seem like a lot of these people ended up at Twitter. And I don't see a lot of Google.
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#5Seems like a lot of people went on to be hired by twitter after not satisfying some other hiring processes. What if this just means that twitter hires second rate people? Also, I wouldn’t have hired the guy who doesn’t use semicolons in his JavaScript, either.
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#6Note to self: If I get rejected from a lot of companies, just apply to Twitter. They'll surely say yes.
Addendum: there should be a companion site "Even twitter rejected me!"
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#7Do practice interviews at companies you don't really want to work for. It takes the pressure off and makes the real interviews easier.
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#8Maybe it's just me but it sure does seem like a lot of these people ended up at Twitter. And I don't see a lot of Google.
It seems like Google filters hard on whiteboarding, questions and Twitter filters on something at least somewhat orthogonal.
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#9>Rejected by Valve Software for a Software Engineer position because i was young. (when i was 19)
Really? I wonder what the culture is like at Valve
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#10This implies that there's a stigma to being "rejected" for a role.
The answer is that you're not entitled to a role, just like a company is not entitled to have you. There's no stigma in saying "You're not exactly what we're looking for right now", even if it's the case that you might be _really great_ somewhere else or even ideal for that exact role in future.
I don't understand people who take a "no thank you" personally, some of the comments are along the lines of: "Ha! sure showed them!" but really it's just like dating, sometimes you get passed up for no other reason than you weren't the person the other was looking for at the right time. Understand rejection, don't treat it like an enemy.