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#11
These days, I just assume I'm or will be rejected. I'm used to it. And I keep trying to hit things I might not be accepted and there have been quite a few instances when I get accepted to something I applied, I'm confused and had to look up the history (mostly email) to backtrack the sequence of events.

Life is much more fun, challenging, and the reward even more super fun when you accept that more than 90% of what I do will be rejected, or laughed and ridiculed at.

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#13
post #2

Maybe was luck, but I saw many rejections ended up hired by Twitter.

Jon, the creator of the site, worked at Twitter when he made this. I imagine a lot of the people to fill this out are friends and colleagues of his.

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#15
You just can't feel bad about anything these days.

At some point, when this is the "social norm", the government is going to step in to make sure everyone feels better by incentivising the vulnerable.

Then it's a big contest for who's the vulnerable.

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#16
Strange website. I assume the people posting themselves on there also are the people that are very active on linked in, twitter, Facebook, have a public instagram, tiktok etc profiles, a medium blog, are "published authors" with their free PDF download.

Why you gotta tell everyone about yourself all the time?

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#18
post #3

Rejecting engineers for not having memorized all parameters of everything in a language is like rejecting a writer for not knowing every word in the dictionary

I always got the impression the big companies reject people because their knowledge of data structures and algorithms was not good enough.

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post #18
post #3

Rejecting engineers for not having memorized all parameters of everything in a language is like rejecting a writer for not knowing every word in the dictionary

I always got the impression the big companies reject people because their knowledge of data structures and algorithms was not good enough.

The big crufty enterprise tech cost center shops used to do the language/framework trivia style interviews. Many of them have since moved onto leetcode though.
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