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#2On the topic of failure, I’ve failed to pass facebook’s Data Science interviews 4 times in 5 years. I’ve been rejected at every level now (phone screen to the “more signal” round).
At what point do I give up? Each time I interview, it ends up with me dedicating roughly a week to prepare, and a week recovering from the rejection.
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#3On the topic of failure, I’ve failed to pass facebook’s Data Science interviews 4 times in 5 years. I’ve been rejected at every level now (phone screen to the “more signal” round). At what point do I give up? Each time I interview, it ends up with me dedicating roughly a week to prepare, and a week recovering from the rejection.
I'm still reeling from being rejected by Google years ago. Inspiring to see you keep trying. Keep it up!
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#4This is so important. We’re generally wired to portray only the positive and successful things about our lives, putting on the facade of success despite a much greater rate of failure.
Failing is how we learn - if we choose to learn from our failures.
I wrote a brief thought about this a few years ago[1], I hope you’ll read it :)
[1]: https://medium.com/@simonhamp/don-t-fail-at-failing-9633aed0...
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#5Let me explain how happy I am to read this. This is beyond motivating. In my profession, failure is part of the job. In fact, I'm not in a "job" per se, but a profession, the "practice" of a healing art. Doctor's do not "work." They "practice." They make mistakes, learn from them, and continue on.
I have a child in middle school now. At the parent orientation, the principal addressed everyone. He said he welcomes mistakes, actually encourages them to try and fail, because that's the only way you learn.
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#6On the topic of failure, I’ve failed to pass facebook’s Data Science interviews 4 times in 5 years. I’ve been rejected at every level now (phone screen to the “more signal” round). At what point do I give up? Each time I interview, it ends up with me dedicating roughly a week to prepare, and a week recovering from the rejection.
I'm still reeling from being rejected by Google years ago. Inspiring to see you keep trying. Keep it up!
Don't worry, you don't need to keep that painnof rejection alive in your heart for years. A week or two; at most a month. You can always try again. Be strong..
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#7While it's important for everyone to learn that thriving past failure is an essential life skill, this post somehow came off more as a humblebrag as I read it. These are "failures" in some sense, but very high status ones. Not looking forward to the raft of copycat humblebrag posts this might inspire.
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#8On the topic of failure, I’ve failed to pass facebook’s Data Science interviews 4 times in 5 years. I’ve been rejected at every level now (phone screen to the “more signal” round). At what point do I give up? Each time I interview, it ends up with me dedicating roughly a week to prepare, and a week recovering from the rejection.
I'm a little confused? 1 why aren't you adding more prep time after each failure? 2 why do you keep interviewing with them at all? a job at x fang company isn't a goal in itself? is it because the opportunity keeps coming up about you take advantage of it? if the latter then why be upset? it's like walking by a carnie game and getting a free play and being upset you lost.
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#9I don’t think we think very much about how culture-specific self-improvement and striving for success are. They are ok but they are not universals in the human condition. From some vantage points they just look comical or odd.
“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.” - Kurt Vonnegut
It doesn’t take seeing the firebombing of Dresden to cultivate some of Vonnegut’s perspective.
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#10Brings to mind the quote: "He failed in business in '31. He was defeated for state legislator in '32. He tried another business in '33. It failed. His fiancee died in '35. He had a nervous breakdown in '36. In '43 he ran for congress and was defeated. He tried again in '48 and was defeated again. He tried running for the Senate in '55. He lost. The next year he ran for Vice President and lost. In '59 he ran for the Senate again and was defeated. In 1860, the man who signed his name A. Lincoln, was elected the 16th President of the United States."