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That is the point of the site. Everybody gets rejected; here's a bunch of people that got rejected and went to get great jobs and you can to.
Ok, I don't really see why there should be a site for this, I mean it's like making a site of people saying they fell a couple of times when they learned to walk.
Do practice interviews at companies you don't really want to work for. It takes the pressure off and makes the real interviews easier.
Who has time for that if you have a full time job? Do you spend all your vacation in interviewing?
Interesting that Chris Wanstrath, a newly minted billionaire and the counfounder & CEO of Github, just chimed in on the site and said he was rejected for an engineering job at Yahoo. If the standard Valley screening/interview process isn't able to pickup on the abilities of someone obviously very talented, self-motivated, and entrepreneurial, doesn't it call into question the efficacy of such procedures? It seems lik…
Hiring is very difficult. Your have limited amount of time with the candidate and based on some coding task and a few hours of interview you need to predict whether that particular candidate is going to perform well in the role you're filling. It's hard, and I'm sure I passed on a few good candidates just because at that point of time I wasn't sure enough whether they'd be a good addition to the team or not.
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Ok, I don't really see why there should be a site for this, I mean it's like making a site of people saying they fell a couple of times when they learned to walk.
We all have different levels of resilience. This site isn't for you.
I could also be on the site btw, I was told during my first assessment interview that I might at some point be a decent supermarket stockboy, not now, but maybe over time.
The best one I've come across yet is Brian Acton being rejected by Facebook [0] ends up creating Whatsapp and in turn selling it to Facebook for $19B. Talk about comebacks. [0] https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/3109544383?lang=en
This resonates. I'm terrible at big tech company interviews--kind of a generalist, read Cicero rather than Knuth in college, tend to start out problems kind of muddled, etc. After a while I concluded the only way to get into large SV companies was to sell a company to them. It's easier to go through due diligence than the corporate interview process in a lot of places. (That's how I got my current job.)
I do however think it's a game that conflicts with certain personality types, including myself early in my career.
I'm always curious what you (or anyone else!) think could be done better.
If there are two good candidates and I pick one of them, it doesn't necessarily mean you were 'rejected', you just weren't selected. I've been 'rejected' by plenty of companies but I try not to take it too personally.
Passive voice. This is the type of weasel language that people try to use to make themselves feel better about what they did. Unless you cleverly redefine rejected to have some additional baggage, the phrase 'not selected' and 'rejected' are semantically equivalent. At least do the people you don't pick the courtesy of owning up to your decision.
The end result is the same but there is a distinct reason for the decision.
The best one I've come across yet is Brian Acton being rejected by Facebook [0] ends up creating Whatsapp and in turn selling it to Facebook for $19B. Talk about comebacks. [0] https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/3109544383?lang=en
How many people got rejected and ended up in a worse job than the one they applied for, or in no job at all?
People enjoy complaining, more so in groups.
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Who has time for that if you have a full time job? Do you spend all your vacation in interviewing?
Your first job is your job, your second job is working on OSS on github to make yourself look good, and your third job is interviewing :^)