You’re probably in the wrong game. These jobs are dead end traps even for the shockingly brilliant. Your success will depend on your ability to commit to one fi

You’re probably in the wrong game. These jobs are dead end traps even for the shockingly brilliant. Your success will depend on your ability to commit to one field of inquiry and learning for the next 20 years. Once you have decided, try to get any job at the least competitive place with the most interesting ambitions. The other thing to know about these interviews is that most of the people that they hire can’t pass them. Sometimes they interview looking for that shocking brilliance, but mostly they just hire whomever they think they’ll get along with best. Several of my absolute worst students got jobs at ‘the top place’ which rejected others I know that have IMO medals. It’s possibly that you didn’t fail, and are obviously way smarter than the interviewer. Look at the incentives. They get negative utility for hiring somebody better than themselves. Only at a very small startup does it benefit anybody to hire up.