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Ask HN: How do you handle a Job rejection?
Hello HN,
Curious and looking for an understanding as to how you handle job rejections. Now I understand straightaway getting rejected as a bad fit / failing the first hurdle (usually some sort of a test / coding challenge), but I am looking for reading through your experiences on how after appearing for $N rounds and then not getting a callback or things not working out at a later / final stage.
Does it affect you? If not, how? Can't help but think it does / it would..
- bigbillheck 5y agoI just tell myself it's their loss.
- throwaway77384 5y agoBeing a really negative person helps sometimes. I consider the default to be rejection (of which I have had many), making any non-rejection a really positive event :)
- iKevinShah 5y ago> I consider the default to be rejection Does that not impact the performance / coding stages?
- 41209 5y agoI try to line up several interviews at once. Always assume you're not getting any particular job. It also helps to not get hung up on one particular company.
- iKevinShah 5y ago> I try to line up several interviews at once Interesting. Read about this elsewhere too (but that was subject to a negotiation) but yeah, I think it might help in not getting hung up on a single rejection / company so to speak.
- 41209 5y agoLearning to not take rejection personally, works for every avenue of life. Say you want to meet somebody nice, you try to strike up a conversation and he tells you to sod off. . No reason to take it personally