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by warrenm 2984 days ago
You should never expect to find out why you didn't get hired somewhere. But the answer is always one of the following:

- someone else was a better fit (tech, culture, attitude, etc)

- you're actually truly incompetent

- the interviewers are morons

99% of the time, it's that someone else was a better fit.

1 comments

Unless you're astoundingly good, if companies are interviewing around N candidates for each position, you should expect a hit rate of around 1/N. Doing significantly better pretty much requires all three of those to be simultaneously false.