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Ask HN: How do you handle a Job rejection?

1 points by iKevinShah ↗ HN
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..

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throwaway77384
Being 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
> I consider the default to be rejection

Does that not impact the performance / coding stages?

41209
I 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
> 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
Learning 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