All my career rejections

I wouldn't do this and keep it around. We have all had rejections, particularly in these highly competitive times but the trick is to forget about them after doing a quick postmortem and learning any lessons. The reason is that psychologically we are wired to focus on the negatives and ruminate endlessly on it leading to self-doubt and a sapping of self-confidence. This is absolutely not good for long-term psychological growth and by extension, your life.

There is also the fact that "recruiting" methods are pseudo-scientific and do not reflect the candidate's ability (outside of very narrow specialized fields) at all. People also tend to make biased snap judgements if you display your failures/faults rather openly. Always project your strengths and don't advertise your faults.

PS: Read The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence by Baltasar Gracian trans. by Jeremy Robbins (aka The Art of Worldly Wisdom) for some pragmatic approach to life.

Something is very strange about the Stripe interview, even now.

First time I was referred to Stripe, I got a rejection email an hour later (no interview even occurred).

Second time, I did a coding exercise with no issues, passing all tests, but from the start I could tell the interviewer didn't like me (so I got a rejection).

Thank you for your service; I wish you a lot more failures on your way to push the envelope in the space between fear and panic.

In a sense, yes. The trick is to analyze the event (i.e. the attempt and the failure) to learn lessons for improvement and not allow it to be a reflection and definition of you. Are you applying for the wrong type of jobs, are you preparing for the interview properly, how do you distinguish yourself from the crowd, are your expectations too high, are you willing to settle for lower pay, are you networking properly etc. etc. are all parameters which you can tune to give yourself an edge. You have to learn to "Hustle" (not meant in a pejorative way).

I did something similar last year after getting rejected by FAANGs and few more other tech companies.

- Google rejected 3 times.

- Facebook 2 times.

- Amazon(AWS) 1 times.

- Adobe 1 Times.

- Twitter, Github, stripe and others won't even consider me good enough for an interview.

- Dozens others companies, who do FAANG style interviewing.

I fear rejections, no matter how much I "try" to act normal. I was looking forward to working on some new projects and with talented team members, I never got that opportunity and its heart breaking. I been working on solving leetcode problems. But sometimes can't even solve Easy problems and its just so demotivating. Specially, when I get an automated rejection response without any additional feedback.

I have realized that maybe I'm not a rockstar coder that can come up with high performance code. I'm ok, I can figure shit out! and I think that's fine.

BTW actual feedback from an technical interview,

"I would encourage XXX to use some coding challenge practice websites to become comfortable with producing quick working code segments which would help him feel comfortable and produce code quickly in future interviews."

Unbelievable!