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I've known and worked with so many great coders (including myself) who got rejected from those places or couldn't even get interviews. There is no shame in it, their interview process is just calibrated to reject most good people.

I'd say this just means you can go work somewhere that will allow you to be more then a junior cog in a large corporation.

I'd start with the hacker news "who is hiring" thread that gets posted the 1st of every month if you aren't already watching it.