[devsquid]

Getting turned down always feels shitty, but I try hard to not take it personally.

The whole you rejected me, but haha I'm better off comes across as pretty self-centered and entitled.

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[cthulhua]

I read this as "we were rejected but it worked out ok, so don't feel too discouraged if you have a bad interview"

[devsquid]

Ok I like that, its just the term rejection has a common us versus them connotation in the US.

[jon_kuperman]

Creator here. Sorry if that wasn't clear! I only meant this to be inspiring for people to "keep trying" even when they face rejection!

[devsquid]

Yea its quite cute!(Not meant to be condescending)

The site loads them in random order and I read about how someone was nervous during an interview and faults the interviewers and a few other more sour ones first. lol sorry.

[marshray]

I've lived in the US my whole life and I don't accept this connotation.

'Rejection' is just rejection. Sometimes it's personal, sometimes it's not.

[devsquid]

lol I'm from the US and have lived here for most of my life. Its probably true in most cultures. Hacker news has a pretty international audience, so I try to tailor my generalizations to my own home country.

[vonmoltke]

> Show some class guys, why not imagine what it takes to be the person that has to reject tons of hopeful young kids.

How about thinking of those "hopeful young kids" before making statements about how hard it is to find tech talent? How many of those rejections came from said companies?

[devsquid]

Sorry you lost me, what company are we talking about?

FYI I only read a few sours/entitled ones before making that statement. I'll edit it to make it less provocative.

[LargeCompanies]

It's celebrating small to big time failures... that's what startup land is all about and these people are working at the biggest startups on the planet.

[devsquid]

lol most of them work for Twitter, which is no longer a start up. But yea I see that now, I just centered in on the more negative ones that loaded in first for me. I realize they are random now.

[jon_kuperman]

I think that's just because I work at Twitter so most of the early contributions were coworkers! :D

[devsquid]

Cool! :D Do you like your job?