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by bbcbasic 3689 days ago
Looking for a job as a fresh graduate. With no work history it is all bullshit multi-day interviews, giving presentations, showing you have 'people skills', rediculously high applciation to interview and interview to offer ratio.

My favourite was a small company that told me they 'like to get girls in for interviews' on the phone and then I stupidly still went to a face to face (I was desperate) and I got rejected - the reason was I used a loop to implement something but didn't suggest I could copy and paste the loop innards 10 times, and therefore was 'holding things back'.