I feel grateful for all the companies (and SWEs) that rejected me

I had many onesites scheduled 2 months ago. I did 5 and got rejected in all of them. Then several other companies that I passed the phone screen ghosted me and never did onsite. Looking back with all the lay offs going on and the fact I completed my multi-year/multi-team project, got a promotion and great rewards, I feel happy I was forced to stay at msft. So thank you all that made that possible!! … I’m joking, I still feel like shit when I think about it and my self esteem is very low regarding to applying again, so I focused on my job to cope and to prove myself and delivered. But I haven’t practiced again in the last 2 months. I know I’m much better off that many people out there, but I’m focusing on empty half of the glass: at my YOE, people are making double and I got in debt because of medical reasons so I really needed a big raise. Trying to be grateful but I can’t, if I need to be honest. Trying to tell myself that applying after 50LC is not enough nowadays and that I had many learnings and blah blah blah, but until I break the streak it’s hard. Anyways if you’re curious here is my experience for senior jobs: - Google: was told right away that I did well but not good enough. BS, I’m sure I had terrible score, especially in the LC hard. The other 2 I think I did okay and meh. - Faire: was told I didn’t do enough testing. True, I barely finished 2 problems on time and was able to run a couple tests of the 10 unit tests they had provided me. Not sure if my job was to add more test and that was their point or that I should’ve finished sooner and run all tests and even discuss adding more (there was probably some catch hidden in the fact they gave me so many tests). - Gusto: they said I did great but with current market they prioritize candidates that know Ruby. - Uber: they told me I did great on coding and design but the HM had concerns about leadership. It checks out, I was all over the place, I thought they might down-level me but it was a straight rejection. - Disney/Hulu: who knows, got ghosted after the onsite, I can speculate what I did wrong or if they closed the job but who knows. Yoe 9, 240 TC, lvl 64, remote

Capital One caponial Dec 5, 2022

You learn more from failure than success. I wish I got my failures out of the way earlier in life.

Roblox l0yal Dec 5, 2022

Share the G LC hard!

Microsoft fakk OP Dec 5, 2022

I’ll see if I can find it later, it had to do with two arrays where one was metadata of the other one but can’t remember the ask exactly, and he kept iterating on requirements making it more complicated, I solved the first couple iterations and got nailed on the other one.

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bodhisa₶va Dec 5, 2022

am I the only one who always feels like the interviewers are just bad judges of talent when the rejection comes?

Baxter wasteland Dec 5, 2022

I really enjoyed this post. Honest and funny.

WarnerMedia touchgrass Dec 5, 2022

Right there with you, even got rejected by Faire (shitty interview experience even if I did like the company overall, no alignment between recruiters and interviewers regarding interview content). Still gainfully employed, so fuck em