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> We all get rejected from dozens of interviews. That's just life. Did anybody ever think it wasn't like this? Based on how this industry carries on about "tal

• ghaff 8y ago
  That and the fact that you get no shortage of people essentially making the claim that, if you have a pulse in Silicon Valley, you can send out a few emails and have a new job paying $300K by the next Monday morning.
  • pedrosorio 8y ago
    I have seen several ex-colleagues do that sort of thing with no or very few rejections in the process. They had to interview and receive offers from several companies though. I imagine the number of people that can just "send out a few emails" to get that result is very limited.
• mamon 8y ago
  Thing is: Majority of failed interviews can be probably traced back to a relatively small pool of mediocre engineers, who get rejected by dozens of companies, before they finaly land a job. And then they loose that job 3-12 months later, because they coulndn't keep up with their employer expectations. So, at least in theory, both "there's talent shortage" and "it is so hard to land a job" can be true at the same time, just for different groups of people.