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by _lvbh 776 days ago
Pretty interesting read as someone looking for an internship and getting rejected by just about everyone. My experience line up pretty well with their observations, though a bit more explicit. They state the fact that they’re competitive and very specifically that they want “Cambridge-level” students. I doubt they even looked at the rest of my portfolio.

> would AI do better

Oh please don’t. I would rather be rejected by a fallible human than some paper clip maximizing algorithm that holds no responsibility

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If you're not Oxbridge, the AI would actually give you a leg up in applications.
I’ve had gitroll.io used on me before and it failed to detect any valid repository on my GitHub profile, had to manually show them my profile but at that point, they were already suspicious/doubtful. There is no way to tell what the AI hallucinated unless it’s outrageous and you get told