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Rejected.us

by daxaxelrod on 8/8/22, 11:53 PM with 22 comments

• by matt3210 on 8/9/22, 2:04 AM

  Rejecting engineers for not having memorized all parameters of everything in a language is like rejecting a writer for not knowing every word in the dictionary

• by tzs on 8/9/22, 2:31 PM

  The one that was rejected because he did not use semicolons in his JavaScript is interesting. So are a few others that were rejected for not knowing specific things about whatever language the company used.

  These rejections at first seem idiotic, especially the semicolon one. Surely the company could have simply told the developer "our style standard requires semicolons" and the developer would have been able to quickly and easily adapt. And surely any decent developer could learn in a reasonable amount of time those parts of the language that the company uses that the develop has not previously used enough to memorize.

  30-40 years ago that is what would have happened. It was not at all uncommon to get hired for a new job that used a language you didn't know or had not used much, on an operating system you hadn't used, and involving hardware that was new to you.

  But 30-40 years ago, we stayed at our jobs a lot longer. I wonder if that is why it was different? If it took a couple months or so to start getting productive and a year to become expert at the stuff that was new to you it was no big deal. You were likely going to be there for the better part of a decade.

  So maybe now, if you can only expect employees to stay on average 2-3 years at the big SV tech companies employers want people who start out as experts in as much as possible of the tools they use, so the only training to get up to speed needed learning that company's particular systems?

• by uhtred on 8/9/22, 3:07 AM

  Strange website. I assume the people posting themselves on there also are the people that are very active on linked in, twitter, Facebook, have a public instagram, tiktok etc profiles, a medium blog, are "published authors" with their free PDF download.

  Why you gotta tell everyone about yourself all the time?

• by m3kw9 on 8/9/22, 1:41 AM

  Maybe was luck, but I saw many rejections ended up hired by Twitter.

• by binbashthefash on 8/9/22, 4:57 AM

  Cool foe these folks who turned their luck around, but it's mentally exhausting having hope at this point - I'm at peace with my mediocrity.

• by jamghee on 8/9/22, 2:04 AM

  Tried to add all of mine but accidentally DoSed the site

• by flippinburgers on 8/9/22, 2:28 AM

  If being ghosted is being rejected, then I have been rejected hundreds of times.

• by esel2k on 8/9/22, 12:29 PM

  Abit disappointed to only seeing large tech companies making adtech or similar things.

  Not saying these around good places to be well paid but I believe that are more important problems to solve than creating thumbsups and likes. It is also not a shame to own a large farm or serve in an orphanage in a third world country.

• by Brajeshwar on 8/9/22, 2:48 AM

  These days, I just assume I'm or will be rejected. I'm used to it. And I keep trying to hit things I might not be accepted and there have been quite a few instances when I get accepted to something I applied, I'm confused and had to look up the history (mostly email) to backtrack the sequence of events.

  Life is much more fun, challenging, and the reward even more super fun when you accept that more than 90% of what I do will be rejected, or laughed and ridiculed at.

• by badrabbit on 8/9/22, 10:04 AM

  A lot of these people seem to have ended up at twitter or netflix

• by butwhywhyoh on 8/9/22, 2:34 AM

  Wait a minute. If this site is true, then everyone doesn't get everything they want out of life 100% of the time?

  This is fascinating!

• by tamrix on 8/9/22, 3:00 AM

  You just can't feel bad about anything these days.

  At some point, when this is the "social norm", the government is going to step in to make sure everyone feels better by incentivising the vulnerable.

  Then it's a big contest for who's the vulnerable.