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Maybe it's just me but it sure does seem like a lot of these people ended up at Twitter. And I don't see a lot of Google.
How many people got rejected and ended up in a worse job than the one they applied for, or in no job at all?
He got rejected by a company ("Not enough experience" was the reason given).
Then, 7 months later, not only did he get accepted to the very same company, it was at 2x the asking price from before.
It really goes to show that the hiring pipeline can get pretty schizophrenic sometimes.
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.
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.
Note to self: If I get rejected from a lot of companies, just apply to Twitter. They'll surely say yes. Addendum: there should be a companion site "Even twitter rejected me!"
I'm really surprised at how they managed to get so many big names from the open source community to share their stories. Maybe success isn't tied to grinding out a bunch of leetcode?
This 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…
Let me break it to you: This attitude exists everywhere. People compete to get into top companies, then compete for limited promotions to get into top positions, compete for the best spouses, etc.
This 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…
The best you can do is sort out the people you absolutely cannot use or don't want. The rest? The one's that you reject because of not matching some part of the interview process but largely are a good fit? They're probably fine, they're probably better than you think they are. In fact, statistically speaking it's probably better to have gambled on these people than the people you've hired and then had to fire.
We don't have the industry standards, the experience, the data, or the worker pool to fuss around with these ridiculous interview processes some companies employ. In fact these interview processes actively filter for people who are only willing to go through with the process, not necessarily the best talent.
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.
Still, it's pretty silly when a company says you're not knowledgeable enough in X when you literally wrote the book on X. Being told, "You obviously don't have experience" by a company when it's literally untrue really grinds my gears.
Looks like nobody knows enough JS...
I'm really surprised at how they managed to get so many big names from the open source community to share their stories. Maybe success isn't tied to grinding out a bunch of leetcode?
It helps that, it's pretty silly to claim that someone like Kyle Simpson "doesn't know Javascript" (when the title of his series is literally "You Don't Know JS").
I don't think it hurts his brand any to be open about his rejections.