Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories • Hacker News Board

Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories

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Post by lkrubner » Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 5:56 AM UTC

tofupup wrote: post #36

Being rejected a few times this week, this makes me feel a bit better. For one interview ... my brain decided to take the day off ... nerves I guess ... it was not pretty. Any who (sic) ... the show must go on ... back at it tomorrow morning wish me the best.

If you'd like to feel better, you should read "Embarrassing code I wrote under stress at a job interview":

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/embarrassing-code-i-w...

Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories

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Post by namelezz » Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 6:08 AM UTC

paulftw wrote: post #29

Twitter - where most of these rejected people ended up?..

or Twitter - where most of these rejected people make awesome comebacks

Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories

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Post by fensterblick » Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 6:22 AM UTC

Thank you for this site! I am going through the interview process now and there are times where I feel like a fraud. Some call this impostor syndrome. It's encouraging to read others who have travelled the same path I've been on.

Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories

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Post by zitterbewegung » Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 6:27 AM UTC

lkrubner wrote: post #21

I love this, but it could go even further: Blaine Cook was "rejected" from Twitter after years of hard work. But he faced an insane scaling problem, and most of us would look bad if we faced the same set of problems. Steve Jobs was "rejected" by Apple after years of hard work. Or my all time favorite: John Lasseter was fired from Disney because he was too enthusiastic about cutting edge digital animation (rather than…

That could be a different site though. Instead of "we were rejected" you can say "we were fired"...

Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 6:27 AM UTC

paulftw wrote: post #29

Twitter - where most of these rejected people ended up?..

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Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories

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Post by im2w1l » Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 6:28 AM UTC

namelezz wrote: post #52

paulftw wrote: post #29

Twitter - where most of these rejected people ended up?..

or Twitter - where most of these rejected people make awesome comebacks

Or, to account for the selection bias: People don't always come back after rejection. But when they do, they do it at twitter.

Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories

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Post by autotune » Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 6:37 AM UTC

im2w1l wrote: post #56

namelezz wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

or Twitter - where most of these rejected people make awesome comebacks

Or, to account for the selection bias: People don't always come back after rejection. But when they do, they do it at twitter.

...which just laid off a bunch of their staff.

Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories

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Post by siphor » Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 6:38 AM UTC

namelezz wrote: post #52

paulftw wrote: post #29

Twitter - where most of these rejected people ended up?..

or Twitter - where most of these rejected people make awesome comebacks

or Twitter - where the most engineers tweet

Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories

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Post by saryant » Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 6:41 AM UTC

andrewstuart wrote: post #5

copperx wrote: post #2

It's interesting how all these top companies insist on JS expertise, I didn't know that it was so important for an interview and that's something I need to work on.

If you have no JavaScript these days then largely you can forget job hunting. If you have awesome, expert, deep, deep JavaScript then firstly you might as well be a unicorn but secondly, you will get a job.

This is very much not true.

Re: Everyone’s been rejected – these are our stories

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Post by sotojuan » Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 6:43 AM UTC

jqm wrote: post #4

Looks like (so far) nearly half the people shown wound up at twitter. Apply to twitter first?

This project was created by a Twitter developer. Of course, he asked his Twitter friends to submit their stories first. Since there's few stories for now, it looks that way.