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I once got a rejection from an internship application late one night a few hours after I applied. I wouldn't be really surprised if I had been automatically rej
by chris11 10y ago
I once got a rejection from an internship application late one night a few hours after I applied. I wouldn't be really surprised if I had been automatically rejected. And my rejection might have been because the state university I went to was not specifically mentioned in the drop down list of schools, it was in the "other" category. I think I might have not gotten a rejection so quickly if I had been going to a target school like MIT or Stanford.
- sotojuan 10y agoSure, that's fair. Do you think you would've gotten at least a phone interview had you had a lot of experience and a good resume (aside from the non-target school)? I have friends who have such experience in finance and firms won't even look at them because of the university name in their resume.
- chris11 10y agoI don't know what their criteria was. I guess they could have skimmed it for a few seconds. I actually just had a classmate tell me that they just had an interview for an internship at that company. But I can say I do have a good resume. I have a little bit of full time experience (before I decided to go to school full time for cs) and an internship at a company they recruit from. So it's technically not an immediate disqualifier. But I did get a rejection quickly enough that I think it might have been automatic, and my school is still listed as "other - please specify" on their internship application.
- rianjs 10y agoMore likely their internship program was full already.
- chris11 10y agoIt's definitely possible. It was a startup, I think they only had a few thousand employees. But I think applied in the fall. So their intern program probably filled up really fast if it was full.