Shaking off failure after interviews
I’m in my late 30s; PM experience spread across no name start ups and legacy financial service companies. Been prepping hard and interviewing at the FANGMULLAs and am unable to clear the final loop. The only offer I got was from Amazon which I declined since the role wasn’t great. Each rejection cuts into my self-confidence. Thinking of giving up on tech companies and sticking to legacy/non-tech companies since the grind is eating into my happiness. Don’t want to work at crappy start ups anymore. Any success stories from the trenches? Should I accept my limitations and move on?
At what point do you consider startup not crappy? Closest you got,?
Dont define yourself by where you work. It will eat into your happiness as you noticed.
Dude chill. Interviews are 50% luck and 50% prep. Best SDE3 I know failed 4 on sites, fb, Netflix, Google, snap. Dude is a beast. Then this sde1, doesn't know shit, kinda bad attitude, without studying more than 2 weeks. Gets fb and Google. Doesn't mean he's better than anyone else. You will crack it, don't let it define you. Only fuck up was not joining Amazon. It has its flaws but it opens so many doors. I got interviews at every single company I applied. And sometimes straight to onsite. Looks good on resume regardless of how ass it is to work at
You cleared Amazon though, wouldn’t beat yourself up that much.
Time to step up your game. If you’ve cracked so many levels of the game to reach here why do you want to give it up? Finish the remaining game and start a new game again