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Many people seem to think there must be something wrong with OP's skills or interview style. I'd just like to point out that it's possible they're a perfectly
by fairity 6y ago
Many people seem to think there must be something wrong with OP's skills or interview style.
I'd just like to point out that it's possible they're a perfectly competent hire and just got unlucky.
If a competent engineer has a 20% chance of passing an interview, the probability that they fail 10 interviews in a row due to pure bad luck is 10.7% (.8^10).
The chance that the same competent engineer gets an offer in 3 or less interviews is 50% (.2+.8.2+.8^2.2).
So, it makes sense that most competent engineers will believe it's easy to get a job offer (after all, most will get an offer after 3 or fewer tries). However, a small but significant portion of competent engineers will believe it's exceedingly difficult and become disillusioned. The truth is somewhere in between.