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If you didn't get any feedback as to why you were rejected, there's no point in feeling bad about it. There are all kinds of reasons companies reject candidate

If you didn't get any feedback as to why you were rejected, there's no point in feeling bad about it. There are all kinds of reasons companies reject candidates. A lot of them have nothing to do with your competence. Maybe they had a better or cheaper candidate come along. Maybe the open position was closed. Maybe they thought you were overqualified. Maybe the interviewer(s) had a bad day and rejected everyone. Maybe one of the interviewers is an asshole and vetoed your candidacy over the objections of everyone else. You have no idea of knowing what happened, even if they did give you feedback. They are certainly not going to tell you that everyone but the asshole wanted to hire you.

imsofuture 10y ago
Furthermore, all companies are different. They all value different things and strengths and types of people. Getting rejected by Amazon doesn't mean you are "not the top 1%", it doesn't even mean you aren't Amazon's top 1%. It means that on that specific day, those specific people didn't think you were the specific top 1% they were looking for right then. You might be Amazon top 1% tomorrow. You might be Facebook top 1% right now. You might have been Uber's top 1% yesterday. You might be everything a founder somewhere is looking for right this second. Hiring is not an objective game, never read anything personal into it.