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Flunking my Anthropic interview again

(taylor.town)
369 points surprisetalk | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.329s | source
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rurp ◴[29 Aug 25 15:33 UTC] No.45065449[source]▶
Putting so much self worth into a single job application strikes me as unhealthy. Hiring decisions are have absurdly high variance. Everyone I know has been rejected from a job that seemed like a perfect, usually many times over. I'd say that's far more common than actually getting a given job.
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1. pjm331 ◴[30 Aug 25 17:22 UTC] No.45076388[source]▶
Steve Yegge has a great story about Google HR doing an exercise with the eng hiring committee where they reviewed their own anonymized interview packets and they decided not to hire 40% of themselves.