Related anecdote: a good friend of mine works at FB, and pushed and pushed and pushed for me to be okay with him passing off to a recruiter. Finally I said yes,

Related anecdote: a good friend of mine works at FB, and pushed and pushed and pushed for me to be okay with him passing off to a recruiter. Finally I said yes, and after much ball dropping, they rejected me without even a phone screen. I don't mind, but related to this - my background is odd, yet pretty strong: YC co-founder (Corp acquired by Google), top 5 in country PhD, bootstrapped several businesses, lead several concurrent teams of developers, strong ability to ship, among the top iOS BTLE developers in the world, etc. I just don't think I fit their mold, and told my friend so before he even tried. Guess I was right.