I recently finished a bunch of interviews. Feel like interviews involve a lot of luck as you can’t do anything about shitty questions and jerk interviewers. Recently I received two emails from 2 different companies, one of them said “unfortunately we didn’t receive positive feedback “, the other one said “we got very positive feedback “. 😂😂 So it seems interview process involves a lot of randomness. However, I feel shitty every time I get a rejection (even from a company I don’t care about) How do you guys handle it?
What are those two companies you heard from today?
Reject from Dropbox, accept from Uber
How many phone screens with Dropbox? Interviews is just a numbers game and lot of luck I am going through it and know its hard to accept rejections. But you win some you lose some. Lot depends on your interviewer . Good luck
It’s no different than any other failure. Suck it up, learn what you did wrong and move on.
The funny thing is that most of the mistakes you make during interview isn’t fixable, eg: Solution not clicking in time Getting jerk interviewer/meaningless question
Fix what you can control, let the rest go.
Wait. Leetcode. Reapply. Fail. Repeat.
:( Process takes forever With a full time job how can one find this kind of time
Oracle has unlimited vacation. I don't see the problem
well at least ur working at facebook and got an offer from uber not so sure wat ur complaining
I am not complaining, I am seeking suggestion on how to cope with interview rejection
simply think that it's their lost for rejecting you
Yep...interviews are very random. What I hate the most is, when they ask you to explain system architecture of the platform/project, you are working on, to learn more than testing your knowledge. I feel the question to be reasonable if your current project is open sourced. It raises the question of morality, if the project is not open sourced. To answer your question, the way I think is the interview candidate may not have right experience in the area the team is looking for, especially if the candidate have already proved himself at FAANG companies. An open secret is interview scores and performance scores never match. If the candidate knows that he has done well, but still not selected, he should be happy because he is protected from team whose culture is messed up, probably because of bureaucracy or inexperienced engineers. This is just my opinion, please take it with a grain of salt😊 One thing to remember is ANYTHING THAT DOES NOT KILL YOU, WILL ONLY MAKE YOU STRONGER. Having said this, every interview rejection will make you stronger and better interviewer. Good luck with your search if you are still continuing.
I actually had two recent interviewers who have worked on the same service as me and while I’ve worked there. One of them was asking specific system design questions about the service which was awkward. The other didn’t point out to me that the wall behind me was a white board until about 50 minutes in.
Beer and prep brother..
12 onsite interviews in one sprint done in 4 waves, and nearly 80 phone screens. One offer I turned down (and it was the right decision). Just as tough on one's ego as dating, certainly as nebulous and often worse since it's a group of people and you definitely have just one big shot - no do-overs. Best way to handle it is to have a personal life. It's so odd that there's a taboo on talking about the journey. No prizes for persistence and not developing scars.
Sorry bro I still didn’t understand what you wanted to convey, could you post the TLDR .. 12 onsites is pretty admirable
I think Splunk is saying how it is taboo to most people to talk about your rejections. I had a similar experience as Splunk (12 interviews/ 3 offers), and I definitely noticed the awkwardness whenever I brought up the rejections to friends/family.
Why do you want to leave fb?
IPO
No it’s due to terrible WLB and stress at FB
Many times being rejected it’s not a failure. Probably the company was looking for different skills in a candidate or they had candidates with more experience than you
Hey man, be respectful.