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I hope the author found gainful employment, but this post seems self-unaware which may part of be why he gets rejected. He concludes the interviewers/process are bad, because he thinks he "aced it". There's no consideration that he may not have done as well as he thought.

People like that are hard to work with, because they react this way to everything. Bad feedback on code review? "I thought my code was great, it's the reviewer that sucks." Nobody wants to work with people like this and they are almost never as good technically as they think. They work hard to not see their own shortcomings so they don't fix them.

I don't know the poster, he may not be the type I describe, just how the post vibes with me.




Hi, poster here!

I wrote this post when I was super salty about the situation. Obviously I found gainful employment but that still is the worst interview experience I ever had.

I'm forever nervous with coding challenges, I'm definitely not super confident with anything I write in less than 30 minutes to never see again.


When your blog looks like this:

My kid brought home a kitten [KITTEN.JPG]

entire blog post

[1] http://something.com/image/KITTEN.JPG

[2] http://elsehwhere.net/another/image.jpg

...where none of that has an actual clickable link

...it is not even remotely obvious that you found gainful employment


I meant to put "in the time since this post." I've never heard of three-year unemployment in the tech field but I suppose anything is possible.

I converted my blog from HTML to just TXT. The references still work, even though no hyperlinking exists.




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