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by muzani 2568 days ago
To quote Joel Spolsky, "...if you reject a good candidate, I mean, I guess in some existential sense an injustice has been done, but, hey, if they’re so smart, don’t worry, they’ll get lots of good job offers."

It's part of the process. People accept that they'll have false negatives. But you'll get good job offers anyway.

Google and Facebook probably don't have the best process either. They're giant brand names. They get a lot of garbage in their funnel and probably have to filter for minimum garbage, as opposed to having the best engineers.

Not that they don't have great engineers, but the system is flawed and it's a bit of a gamble to get in.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...