"We're sorry, but something went wrong."
Looks like the website rejected me :(
Unfortunately.tech – a collection of rejection letters
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#13Unfortunately, rails is difficult to scale on a shoestring budget.
Unfortunately, that is true :(
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#14When I was job hunting I sincerely appreciated any rejection letter at any stage of the process, be it automated or personal. Obviously an offer letter would be better but the absolute worst is hearing nothing back. We should be praising the companies that take the time (or implement the automated process) to send the rejection letters and not leave us hanging.
Obviously an offer letter would be better but the absolute worst is hearing nothing back.
No. One thing that's worse is they schedule a follow-up call, then blow off the call. Happened to me.
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#15"We're sorry, but something went wrong." Looks like the website rejected me :(
I get the same thing, and DownForEveryone tells me "It's just you. unfortunately.tech is up..." So invalidating. :-)
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#16When I was job hunting I sincerely appreciated any rejection letter at any stage of the process, be it automated or personal. Obviously an offer letter would be better but the absolute worst is hearing nothing back. We should be praising the companies that take the time (or implement the automated process) to send the rejection letters and not leave us hanging.
Obviously an offer letter would be better but the absolute worst is hearing nothing back. No. One thing that's worse is they schedule a follow-up call, then blow off the call. Happened to me.
IBM got me with that one
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#17When I was job hunting I sincerely appreciated any rejection letter at any stage of the process, be it automated or personal. Obviously an offer letter would be better but the absolute worst is hearing nothing back. We should be praising the companies that take the time (or implement the automated process) to send the rejection letters and not leave us hanging.
I appreciate hearing something back. I remember once hearing absolutely nothing for weeks until I had to actually email them to ask, receiving my unfortunate news immediately after.
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#18why?
A better question to ask is "Why not?" :D
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#19Unsure what this is supposed to be solving. Is this just a misery-loves-company thing? Or??
Why does a website have to "solve" something? It's cool to just put stuff out there!
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#20Hi Hacker news!
So yea ... hug of death. Wasn't expecting it to get any attention at all (but that begs the question, why did I submit??).
Anyway, this is an idea I've been sitting on for a while and finally got around to doing something with it. Nothing fancy (this is the first personal project that I've "deployed", and would really appreciate any sort of feedback).
I think it's interesting to look at how companies write rejection letters. It's also a bit cathartic -- I'm finishing up uni and starting to look for work, having a collection of rejection letters makes me feel better about receiving them.