I Found A Secret Database Of Recruiter Rejection Reasons

[@rheale9420]

Biggest takeaway is to not apply for startups if you didn't graduate from an Ivy league school LOL. Thanks for the informative video, Rahul!

[@bademo48]

I believe I have a strong profile, and I once secured an interview with a midsize company. We had six interviews, including three technical ones, where they asked about nearly every possible technical aspect of computer science and software engineering. After the final interview, they made me wait two weeks. Following a couple of follow-up emails from me, they finally responded, saying, 'You have strong technical skills, but we expected better.'

[@MLEpath]

Ah, got it! Don't stay too long or too short. It is a game of guess the exact number that the recruiter/HM thinks you should have been in the role. Thanks for sharing, Rahul, this is a goldmine!

[@1newme425]

I would rather have dinner with a tax collector than a recruiter. That tells you everything you need to know.

[@michaelmedvedskiy7449]

Our skills literally allow us to create non-physical businesses, realize ideas non-technical people would need millions in hiring to do, our predecessors 50 years ago would need to get mortgaged by the neck to have the outreach to customers the internet is giving us. I really think we should leverage it to get away from the toxic dependency on the "Job providers", who right now have all the leverage to get 100 applications to a single job posting. We should use our skills to become self-sufficient - we provide our own jobs to ourselves by starting a small information-technology based business. The average costs are minuscule compared to starting a physical business, so we can fail a lot more. Distributing the American Dream over the world, via the internet :D

[@farsthary1984]

The problem is that the age of "garage made software" and solo developers is over. We have more tools now but the scope and complexity of software has grown exponentially and soon you will need to hire more people to do any software more complex than websites connected to a database or framework gluing. Congrats! you have now become what you swore to destroy: a "Job provider".

[@michaelmedvedskiy7449]

@@farsthary1984 no, I mean - becoming a job provider literally eliminates the problem for you, and makes the situation better for all the other job seekers, as there are more companies competing for devs, this is a good outcome, why make it dramatic as if there is evil or good? It's just personal iterests of different groups of people, I'm an egoist, but that doesn't mean I will make my employees do corporate cringe and go to office 5 days of the week

[@michaelmedvedskiy7449]

@@farsthary1984 and why make a scope large enough so you can't handle it yourself solo? People like the NeetCode guy and Clement the Algoexpert made a small businesses with 1-2 dev teams, I heard Clement now hires people for his courses, but that's his choice to expand the business, probably could have a semi-luxurious life somewhere in Eastern Europe with all the money from just the coding + system design parts of the site, kudos to him btw

[@c0mm3nt-m8e]

1 person business created with AI help era is comming

[@randxalthor]

Thank you for posting this! Such a huge benefit to have data like this when recruiters so often withhold this type of information.

[@senju31]

I'm increasingly realizing the value of deception in trying to get a job. I have been punished so much for showing my actual job history and when I changed it up it made things easier.

[@Hopetobebetter]

awesome content, more of this please! perhaps an anonymous interview of big tech recruiters and what they look for at l3, l4 etc

[@tonysolar284]

When a business sets its expectations too high, you get ghost positions.

[@monterreymxisfun3627]

Even when you get a gig with a startup, if you dare have boundaries it's considered an outrage.

[@c0mm3nt-m8e]

From startup would expect more results orientered, unorthodox environment rather than focusing so much on optics, formal education.

[@Freelancer604]

Tbh, sometimes your rejected for simply submitting in word format instead of pdf. Some other times your disqualified for including irrelevant experience and making the person reading it waste a few seconds going over it (because they have like a hundred other resumes to go through and are not happy to do it to begin with)

[@buddysteve5543]

Most companies just want to know that you can do the job successfully in a short time and if you can hit the ground running without much if any handholding and of course if you can be trusted and respectful.

[@michaelmedvedskiy7449]

It seems more and more to me, that trying to be a good dog for delusional money bags, is self-diminishing. I can understand it if you are from a 3rd world country, and this is a life-changing opportunity for you, you do this for a couple of years to get a firm standing in life. But if you are a citizen, even in a 2nd world country, starting a small IT business, like developing paid Chrome plugins, or making NSFW videogames (like yours truly is about to :D) seems to be just a better life goal than being overworked and underappreciated

[@aspiring_millionaire]

Sounds like a neat idea about videogames, more power and God speed to ya bruv

[@michaelmedvedskiy7449]

@@aspiring_millionaire ty bruv

[@reallegendcode]

Raul is a paragon in content creation

[@binarystar-y9w]

If someone like him is being rejected whats gonna happen to the rest of us who just got into the industry and without any fancy school :D

[@prathameshdoundkar7075]

Can you talk about last stage rejections? When you clear 3-4 rounds..

[@FF18Cloud]

That "opentonetwork" thing always did look tacky, though

[@dranon0o]

I'm adding another comment, I appreciate your insights and what you shared BUT i highly disagree with you on your conclusion. > it's unfair therefore you have to conform and work on it NO NO NO We have to say no, we have to be more vocal against those non-techies morons (from my previous comment here) and get clean our industry for good. We had to add more gatekeepers to avoid those moronic practices.

[@Balaze]

Interviews are hard to get in this economy and with political changes in flight. But it's good to know these biases to better perform in an interview. I've never had luck with startups, given how much it boils down to knowing their stack. I wish the startup interviews are streamlined.

[@NP-hj6qm]

This is v good advice especially about the screening

[@cheinu2566]

Make a note of how none of these reasons have anything to do with the job or task at hand in the company

[@fdsphone6854]

I found (im nobody) that very very very very few of ivy league students are worth the rep. most bought the degree. not saying they didnt work to earn it. just I have seen more outstanding work from average places. Ivy league can turn out geniuses, they are rare and dont want to work for nothing.

[@kenchan123456]

The title should really have “start-up” somewhere, otherwise this is kinda clickbait

[@CaesarGhost2030]

this is sad. you missed the point about people being demoralized, one mistake is an instant rejection from everything in todays world,

[@angaddeepdhillon5168]

Guess what i'm bootcamp candidate so someone with degree will get preference over me lol

[@anonforever123]

Everyone wants someone who goes to a great uni but everyone doesnt get a chance to go there. If this was a reason for rejection, this whole video is worthless to watch

[@ThisIsntmyrealnameGoogle]

Yes but thats life, the point is going to a good uni is like a "stamp" of approval. Which isnt fair and doesnt mean anything because plenty of smart people cant afford Ivy leagues but it makes recruiters automatically put you into yes because its a heuristic, if you go to a top school you have a more than 50/50 chance of being able to be some what competent. You also have a chance to be a nepo baby who has parents who donate a lot yes, but in GENERAL people agree that going to a top school is "impressive". Where if you dont go to a top uni they have to work harder looking at your resume and there's more competition, maybe GPA matters more, projects you do, and so on.

[@aspiring_millionaire]

@@ThisIsntmyrealnameGoogle more like setting one's self apart from the crowd

[@biswaMastAadmi]

Bro, audio isn't loud enough. Please check once

[@JonathanLoganClark]

Seemed to be a normal volume to me. The audio clarity came through well too. Maybe it was fixed.

[@TheRightWayYes574]

Fine to me.

[@biswaMastAadmi]

Cool, I found it to be little lower as compared to other videos

[@CMT-p6q]

for the algo