I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me

> Through a friend of a friend, I found out that Anthropic had an open position in the team implementing the secret, unreleased feature of Claude Desktop using enigo. I wrote a cover letter and sent out my application.

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Post by rkomorn » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 7:41 AM UTC

physicsguy wrote: post #2

Reminds me of the guy who created Homebrew being rejected by Google for failing some silly Leetcode puzzle.

Or the FastAPI creator not having enough years of experience with FastAPI according to a job posting.

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Post by bdavbdav » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 7:42 AM UTC

dash2 wrote: post #3

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The nuance is it’s a job building with the tool he’s created. It’s like turning down the inventor of (insert DBMS here) to build a CRUD app.

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Post by BoredPositron » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 7:43 AM UTC

I wonder if he writes cover letters to every company that uses his library.

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Post by imbusy111 » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 7:43 AM UTC

dash2 wrote: post #3

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They didn't even consider him, cause Anthropic received too many applications.

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Post by bkolobara » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 7:43 AM UTC

> Unfortunately they thanked me for my application but said the team doesn't have the capacity to review additional applications.

It seems like they didn't even look at his application.

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Post by delroth » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 7:44 AM UTC

physicsguy wrote: post #2

Reminds me of the guy who created Homebrew being rejected by Google for failing some silly Leetcode puzzle.

Which is not something that happened, even according to Max Howell himself: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...

> I feel bad about my tweet, I don’t feel it was fair, and it fed the current era of outragism-driven-reading that is the modern Internet, and thus went viral, and for that I am truly sorry.