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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

Honestly the best way to handle companies that have a broken byzantine hiring process that rejects tons of good candidates ist simple:

Do not apply at those companies.

You will waste lots of time, feel like shit, and what is the upside for you considering that you could apply instead at companies that do this better?


But what is the second best way if you really want to work there?

Consider that there are two separate questions:

Do you think you would be good at the job itself? If not, don't apply.

If you think you would be good at the job itself, then realize that lots of good people have been rejected for dumb reasons.

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I like personally how

  • Chris Wanstrath, co-founder of GitHub was not good enough to work at Yahoo
  • Kyle Simpson, the author of You don't know JS was rejected at Facebook because he didn't know enough JS

So be cynical and consider the hiring process as an obstacle you should work around.