I don't mean to be rude, but this post sounds pretty immature to me. How come when people get rejected or down-levelled for jobs, it's always the company that'

I don't mean to be rude, but this post sounds pretty immature to me. How come when people get rejected or down-levelled for jobs, it's always the company that's wrong? I applied to Amazon with 4 YoE + PhD in CS and got offered a mid level position. I was pissed as well but accepted anyway. Oh boy was that the right decision. The first time I pushed a change to prod and broke our service for hundreds of thousands of customers, it dawned on me that I wasn't the hotshot I thought. That humbled me and made me less arrogant. Yes, I also had to do menial and dull tasks for a while. But this allowed me to learn, improve, and build my reputation. Now I'm leading a large and complex green field project in my team and I love it. I don't think it's unreasonable to not hand over the most critical or sexy projects to newcomers before they proved they can handle them. In retrospect this was the right career move for me, and I can honestly say I am a better engineer now than I was back then.