Looks like nobody knows enough JS...
Like the part where the site downgrades gracefully and shows something instead of nothing when JS is disabled? Yeah, totally, agreed 100%.
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#152If 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.
Maybe its semantics but I only represent myself as rejected when I fail the interview loop. That’s a lot more frustrating, especially when you were stoked about the company.
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#153I rejected (so far two of) FANGs when they asked if I was interested.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 :^)
I don't want a second/third job. I want to spend my time off with my family and loved ones.
Sorry, you're rejected for not being passionate enough. Also, you have a family, so you're too old to work here anyway. But we can't say that last part out loud.
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#155I still can't get over the fact that Google rejected mxcl, author of homebrew, possibly the most important piece of software on OSX, because he couldn't remember some useless piece of easily-googleable (ha) CS trivia on the spot. Even though they all run it internally. If that isn't the purest, most concentrated form of arbitrary, blind, own-goal beaureaucratic corporate idiocy I don't know what is. And people actual…
Google interviews are four hours long and they don't tell you how did after the interview. There's no way he can possibly know the reason he got rejected.
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#156I still can't get over the fact that Google rejected mxcl, author of homebrew, possibly the most important piece of software on OSX, because he couldn't remember some useless piece of easily-googleable (ha) CS trivia on the spot. Even though they all run it internally. If that isn't the purest, most concentrated form of arbitrary, blind, own-goal beaureaucratic corporate idiocy I don't know what is. And people actual…
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Sebastian McKenzie @sebmck Facebook Got rejected from a junior position at Atlassian for not knowing enough about JavaScript. Shortly after they now use the JavaScript compiler that I wrote across most of their JavaScript stack.
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Ian Devlin @iandevlin Trivago Rejected by the Google HTML5 Developer Expert programme for not knowing enough about HTML5. Apparently being one of the HTML5 Doctors, writing many articles on the subject and having a book on HTML5 Multimedia being published wasn't enough for them.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
I honestly don't see this as a "feel personal" but maybe speaks more to the randomness of hiring.
Also companies often want very different things. Not only from the technical perspective, but most of them also care about cultural match, and culture can mean very different thing in different companies. So getting offers from one good company and rejected by another is completely normal.
Personally I think beyond "can communicate / not a jerk" culture has just been a placeholder for personal bias.
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#158Do practice interviews at companies you don't really want to work for. It takes the pressure off and makes the real interviews easier.
Recruiting is a time consuming task for all involved and for you to casually waste peoples time in that manner is horribly disrespectful
>Recruiting is a time consuming task for all involved and for you to casually waste peoples time in that manner is horribly disrespectful
The argument cuts both ways. If the company rejects most people they bring for an on-site interview, then they are OK with wasting a lot of people's time. It is the company's responsibility to screen their candidates better.
Among the FAANG companies, 7 different recruiters contacted me this year (including multiple recruiters from the same company - for different divisions). I didn't apply to any of them. I got past their screen and they brought me on site.
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#160tldr
Millenials get frustrated when they get rejected after applying to be a cog at random big corps.