The submissjon title is stupid.
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#32This implies that there's a stigma to being "rejected" for a role. The answer is that you're not entitled to a role, just like a company is not entitled to have you. There's no stigma in saying "You're not exactly what we're looking for right now", even if it's the case that you might be _really great_ somewhere else or even ideal for that exact role in future. I don't understand people who take a "no thank you" pers…
Do you automatically reject about half of country music on the grounds that "you just weren't the person the other was looking for at the right time"?
I'm not saying that a steady diet of heartbreak songs makes for the best listening, just that the impulse is widespread, and so arguably understandable.
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#33This is like It Gets Better, but for fragile software engineers who obviously are talented enough to make 6 figures some place else. I understand rejection can feel personal, especially when so much of your life and identity comes from the work you've put into mastering some field, but this doesn't seem like the healthiest mindset. I'm just leaving college now and don't have much of a perspective yet, but the applica…
I honestly don't see this as a "feel personal" but maybe speaks more to the randomness of hiring.
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#34As someone who's gotten rejected by more companies than I can even count or remember, I think this is great. I have a bitter, guilty fantasy that I could go back to some of those harsh rejections long ago and show them the updates to my resume since they declared me useless. I wonder if/how companies try to measure their false negative rate. Despite how straightforward it is to fire someone in the U.S., they keep say…
>Despite how straightforward it is to fire someone in the U.S., they keep saying "it's better to reject a good candidate than hire a bad one."
It depends on the role. Sales tends to be pretty performance-oriented without a lot of leeway if you miss your numbers.
But, for better or worse, the attitude for most roles at most companies is that, once they hire someone, they mostly don't want to fire them if they're doing an even halfway competent job so long as the company as a whole isn't doing layoffs.
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#35Seems like a lot of these people who are getting rejected end up at Twitter.
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#36If 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.
This would be much easier to deal with if companies gave some reasonable feedback. With the way things work as an applicant you don't know if you were completely rejected or almost selected. It's the same.
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#37I'm 36, recently moved to Berlin. I have 10 years of working experience from tiny to big companies working as android developer, front-end and interaction designer.
For some reason I'm struggling a lot to find a job in Berlin. Most of the CVs I've sent never get an answer, those who get there ask me for a phone interview which that I never get through. They always answer me with a copy-pasted template from the Internet.
This is some feedback I got from other people after checking my CV
- I'm too creative for "normal jobs" but not creative enough for the creative ones
- My last 2 years I worked as a freelancer and German companies don't like that
- I don't show consistency in tech stack
- I'm in the verge of getting old
(update: formatting)
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#38Do 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?
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#39This is like It Gets Better, but for fragile software engineers who obviously are talented enough to make 6 figures some place else. I understand rejection can feel personal, especially when so much of your life and identity comes from the work you've put into mastering some field, but this doesn't seem like the healthiest mindset. I'm just leaving college now and don't have much of a perspective yet, but the applica…
Is facebook a good bar now? I was thinking facebook isn't so popular, you really want SpaceX or something "better" now. All you validation seekers have to move!
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#40>Rejected by Valve Software for a Software Engineer position because i was young. (when i was 19) Really? I wonder what the culture is like at Valve
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployee...
Don't link the handbook, it's not exactly how Valve operates.
https://www.pcgamer.com/ex-valve-employee-describes-ruthless...
https://www.reddit.com/r/valve/comments/8zmp07/former_valve_...