Most posts are humble bragging about their shiny new offers, so here’s my rejections so far. I probably won’t post here if I get an offer, but if my new company wants me to make a cringe LinkedIn post apologies in advance… Feel free to vent yourself. Failed OA: Amazon (failed two onsites in past) CodeSignal Failed Onsites Small startup HBO Max Tanium Axon Upcoming onsites: Meta (rejected after clearing phone screen before, no headcount lol) Google (rejected 3 prior onsites, heard they had a 3 strikes you’re out rule, but maybe no?) Twitch Upcoming phone screens: Atlassian CNN Ghosted after blind resume dump: Stripe, Valve, Snap, Epic games, Salesforce all I can remember for now lol Rejections are not easy, but we all go through them. So best of luck with the grind, all! And always tip your DoorDash / UberEats, etc driver, they are working hard out there! If I can do it with my peanuts TC, so can you… Old TC: ~135k YOE: 5
Why leaving Microsoft? Just curious. Good luck in your job hunt!
Is the question specifically for MS or what?
Prob just want more TC since they have 5 YOE and making 135K
Hang in there. Story of many folks right now.
It happens. Keep trying. I'm not giving up 🙏
Its ok man. I finally got an offer after 8 months.
Stay strong op! For meta why would they interview you if they have no headcount?
I think at the time they assumed I was L4 when I was L3.
Thanks for posting. We've all been there. I'm part of the 🥜 crew, too
Applied to 29 companies Got to phone screen (and/or hiring manager interview) with 21 7 onsites 3 offers TC went from $167k to $430k Total time 5 months. Totally Worth it. Despite the 24 or so rejections :)
Good luck, I hope you get an offer soon. I just started interviewing and got rejected by Google. It was for an interaction design role but the interviewer didn't even ask me questions related to design or behavioral questions, just basic questions about working with product managers and developers. I'm experienced in that and answered him clearly but it felt like he wasn't really uninterested in anything I had to say from the very start. It was a pretty bad experience. Hopefully I have better luck with other companies.
Best of luck to you!
Beautiful post, thank you for this
Have faith.. all you need is 1 yes to feel validated. There’s a lot of luck in this. (Also trying to convince myself)
There's a part of skill and a part of luck in tech interviewing. You control the skill part, but you can't really control if you get some stuck up interviewer that expects everyone to come up with an O(n) substring search algorithm on the spot.
I feel like this happened to me a week ago but for a design interview. I have no doubt in my skill but it really kicked me in the confidence.