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by ubernostrum 3822 days ago
During my recent job search I ran some companies operating on the "better to reject 100 top-tier people than hire one not-top-tier person" philosophy. Mostly this is Google, FB and companies trying to model their hiring on Google and FB.

What seems to be becoming more common outside of that world is a trial period as a contractor, which seems to have a bit less feel-bad if it doesn't turn into full-time employment (and also usually gives you more time to search for another job if you think/know it isn't going to work out).