What do you mean by rejection letter? Mail?

Anything! Just to let me know that I am out

Sales

Product Manager

@EasyAlto how long would you keep waiting for buddy? To give benefit of doubt to the company, there could be many things going on, and there could also be the possibility that this is your silent rejection which has become the norm. I understand the part about it being your dream company, but buddy how long will you hang on it? You gotta move on and find other opportunities.

Software Engineer

Completed my MBA from An Indian Tier 1 college and applied for a marketing role (my previous role was non marketing, but I did some offline stuff) Was amongst the best performers and the company is...

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Completed my MBA from An Indian Tier 1 college and applied for a marketing role (my previous role was non marketing, but I did some offline stuff) Was amongst the best performers and the company is one of the popular ones in the country rn. When I applied again for a marketing role, I got interviewed once long back and have been waiting for a revert. Worst Part - I know someone has been hired for the part and she is a friend. The person who was handling my application is a great guy, have met him personally before my former stint. Dont know why would they not give a rejection letter. Really need to move on but cannot because this will always be my dream company and was also the profile I have been reeling for. Tell what to do!

Rejected by ex-company after MBA, was a high performer

Rejected by ex-company after MBA, was a high performer- Grapevine

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Looking for genuine and non diplomatic answers since it will be anonymous. It is upto you to reveal the name of the company you resigned from.

Lets discuss!!! I will go first -

I quit my last organisation (a famous UPI company) in 2020 because, they still are in old technology. No cloud computing, no kubernates, no terraform. Their entire baremetal infra are in 2 DCs (Mumbai and Bangalore). Leadership ideas are outdated. I was very much bored and looking for a change.

Why did you resign?

Amount of effort i put and the salary i got was not proportional. 14 hrs to get 30k salary as a fresher. I had understood that I deserve better - thus i moved to get better pay and better wlb (which I got in swiggy)

Founder

DevOps Engineer

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Tl;dr: CV is getting rejected need suggestion around certification/portfolio and recent trend is preference given to Tier 1. 

Overall Experience 6 years 
Account Manager 5 year
PM(Designation Product Specialist) 1 year, internally transitioned after 2 years working as an AM.

CTC 10 Fixed - Highly Underpaid 

Took a pay cut to transition to product role, company policy states team change pay cut because a fresher in new team. 

Not good relationship with current manager because financial issue fucks up mental health which fucks up work as well. So appraisal out of the picture. 

So I am looking for a job,wherever I have applied my cv is getting rejected. I have checked the ATS score and it is >80% 

Have checked with people from multiple companies: zynga, cars24, nykka and the trend is tier 1 college students get preference. 

Cannot pursue MBA now because age is almost 28 and cannot afford the fees. 

Are there any Certifications/exams which can help here ? A portfolio of projects ? 

Someone mentioned ISB PM course as well but gone through reviews on Reddit and it’s not worth it as per them. 

The last resort is upraised.co Bootcamp. Is it worth it when it comes to job placement? 
 
Education background:  MCA from Open university.

CV is getting rejected

I am currently working at an early stage startup as a software engineer and have been working here since around couple of years full time and an internship prior to that. I am getting a decent salary and the work environment is also good.

But While I write this, I have started feeling stagnated and bored at work and feel that I am not growing in career. This is one reason that has led to me start slacking off at work and take long time to complete tasks.😓

However, I don't want this to continue and thus am here for advice. I am trying to apply to various companies but only to receive rejections. Not even getting an interview call. I am planning to prepare for MBA and the exam is in November. But since folks usually prepare for MBA alongwith job so it means I should continue my job if I want to do so which is another problem for me. I am even confused if I want to an MBA since only the product management role out of it attracts me and not the consulting/investment banking once. So I am not sure if I should even do an MBA. 😒

I discussed this with my parents and they asked me to leave job and prepare for UPSC. Honestly, I have some interest in the exam and the job is great as well no doubt but being 26 years old I am not fully sure of taking this call  since it involves a lot of risk.

All this has been causing lot of conundrum in my brain and it would be really helpful if anyone can suggest any things that I am missing out or that can be simplified.🙏

Looking for career advice

Software Developer

Got rejection email from the company which i so much wanted to get in. Got rejected after the system design round. I tried my best but not sure what went wrong. How do you guys handle such situation? One email just thrashed whatever you were expecting since past few days.

Rejected from dream company

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

was on the last stages of the conversations and got rejected for god knows what reason. capable enough to do stuff and get shit done and good experience but still. what a bad fucking time.

just got rejected again!

Intern

This was my pathetic interview experience with Acceldata india with a very unprofessional and lying recruiter. This story has a satisfying ending.

I attended 6 rounds of interviews in 1 month and completed a take home assignment. I cleared all the rounds and even had a manager discussion about my onboarding. All good so far. 

Few days later the recruiter called back and said we need one more round (8th round) with the director who sits in US office. I said Ok and he scheduled this call on a Friday 10pm at night. 

At 9:55pm I tried to join the meeting link he sent but the link was not working. I tried in different browsers, different laptop, different internet connection. No luck. 

So I reached out to recruiter on mobile and he doesn't pick up. I know he's available because he was on call with someone else. I even tried reaching him via a different phone number but still no luck. Imagine the anxiety and panic I had to go through since I felt that it was my fault. 

On, next day he casually calls me in the morning to say that "Sorry I tried calling you 2 days ago but your mobile was unreachable (which is a plain lie). He says he cancelled the meeting because he found another candidate with lower salary.

That's fine, and I don't give a damn at this point. But I asked why didn't he send meeting cancelled email so I didn't have to panic on a friday late night. He casually says "Sorry about that". That's the last I hear of him. No response after that. 

All this after going through 8 rounds of interviews and a take home assignment. All because this a--hole recruiter lied to my face and couldn't send a simple email. 

Funny thing is: Another recruiter reached out to me 3 months later for the same role. Apparently the candidate they hired instead of me backed out at the last miniute. 🤣

If you get a chance to interview at AccelData, trust me, please don't waste your time. The company and the recruiting practises are not worth your time, even if you are jobless.

Don't bother interview with AccelData

This is EXACTLY one of the ways this platform is meant to be used. Call out the BS and NAME THE DAMN COMPANY. Dodged a bullet there OP.

Security Engineer

Analyst

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

So few days back, The company (huge Product based MNC) after a whole month of review , extended their Pre Placement Offers to 2025 Undergraduates in which unfortunately I didn't get.
I was part of a Data Operations and Engineering team during my internship and me with another cointern came up with a GenAI solution to prepare a Data Validation Engine for the Data Product Platform which included a Semantic Table Recommendation based on Business Rule and a Natural Language Data Validation Platform with Dashboard to select , drag and drop and see end results. It was a complete Full Stack project for a 3year B.Tech student who straight got thrown into world of Oracle, PySpark, Langchain , NLP , React , FastAPI, and even we mounted the Dashboard as a specific route of API and almost prepared it for pre-production.

Now, our manager and other teammates (SDE I and II) said that this is a new team and one of most ambitious long term project and they are in need of personnel and based on what we accomplished in 2 months, they said they definitely wanted to see us back in January to improve the platform and actually push it into Production.

Also it's normal for the Company to push 90-100% conversion from Internship to Permanent Job offers from its last 3-4 year track record.

But everything changed, when the PPOs dropped in. Colleges were witnessing 30-50% conversion only and the conversions for the students didn't make any sense in any way. Though I was lucky enough to come back to college and get a backup Job Offer but I waited desperately for this PPO since I felt like family in those two months and because of this I gave up my streaks of practice and got deviated from my own projects and everything. 
Today, I talked with one of my senior SDE from the team and he said that review of our work was impeccable and they were themselves shocked that we didn't get. My other co-intern who is also placed in a backup offer had the same interaction who was himself shocked how could they cancel our PPOs.
The manager said , after they submitted the review and requirements, the HR gave no visibility to the managers themselves and hence no consultation from the actual need was taken while extending. For a large organisation venturing deep into AI in daily life projects, extending offers to 31/84 people and that too in Legacy Stack like C# , Java , Frontend was quite abnormal for the students. 

Though how much I pretend to be not affected by this event but deep down I am broken from inside. I worked da y and night , I even worked from office every day where WFH was still there. 

Well, though I have this huge MNC internship on my CV , but in reality, I am not in that big of a college that anything I do can beat this company nor I was such consistent code-worm who kept on grinding Leetcode and DSA everyday. Now I am even worse than most in my college.

Got rejected for a PPO after a successful Internship. Even my manager was shocked at how I got rejected.

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Hi everyone!
I have 5+ years experience in paid ads, digital marketing, worked with 30+ Clients.
From last 2 week, I was searching new job in Pune City. But 4 different HR rejected my cv. Just because of reason, I didn't have MBA degree 😔😔

No MBA No Job?

Growth Manager

Hello Everyone, 

I am a 2022 MBA pass out from an Old IIM, and I have a total work experience of 2 years & 4 months(1.2 years post-MBA as an APM). I resigned from my position as an 'Associate Product Manager' in June 2023 because I found the role unfulfilling, I was totally not enjoying it, and I aspired to transition into roles related to the Strategy and Growth domain.  

(Link to my previous post on Grapevine regarding my Job Role Switch: https://share.gvine.app/EmMbJcfW4pCcEsZW9)

I'm currently having an offer to join the Strategy Team at a Series B-funded startup, with Y Combinator being one of the investors. However, this opportunity is a 6-month internship ( Designation: Strategy and Ops Intern), with the potential for conversion to a full-time role based on performance. I'm seeking advice on whether or not I should pursue this opportunity.

Additional Information: Over the past 3-4 months, I've actively applied to numerous Strategy and Growth roles. Unfortunately, I didn't receive any shortlists for these positions since they typically required a minimum of 2 years of experience in Strategy Consulting, which I currently lack, on the other side, I was only getting shortlists for APM/PM roles which I was accepting as I was not having any other option at that point in time. 

My Take: I consider this as a great opportunity to kickstart my career in the Strategy domain and I am confident about the conversion of a full-time opportunity. I am extremely interested in building my career in this strategy domain and this was the major reason to left my previous jobs. The organization also explicitly mentioned that they were also looking for a long-term association with me.

I would greatly appreciate your insights on this matter. Thank you so much for your time

Urgent: Need Advice regarding Job Offer Acceptance.

Urgent: Need Advice on Job Offer Acceptance

Lead social, brand, perf, SEO, partnerships, community, growth, pretty much everything across zero to fairly high budgets. Happy to help.

Marketing lead, 10.5 years, here to help!

Brand Marketing Manager

Profile- 4 YOE, B.Tech from old IIT
I started looking for new roles towards the end of June, and it took me approximately two months to get an offer letter. My skillset in a niche technical area helped me to get this offer. My advice to folks looking for a job, focus on your strengths and do not get discouraged. It's brutal out there, but you need only one job. Stay focused.

Job Search in current market for a PM

Recently started giving interviews and cleared a few rounds in a couple of companies. I never heard back from any of them even if I felt the interviews went well. Very frustrated because of this as I fail to understand how difficult is it to just reject or send a rejection email if they don't want to hire. I understand that companies have 100s of candidates in their pipeline but it's so frustrating to not even get any rejection mail and get stuck in a limbo.

Why do companies ghost after interviews?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2jSPKiudpu/?igsh=MXVoanJuYXlpZjRlaw==

When you are an MBA but MBB didn't hire you

Consultant

Hi Grapeviners, I have ten years of work ex in performance marketing and CRM. I started job search actively from Feb 15 this year and landed first interview today. 

How bad is the market out there. I usually get hired with in 30 job applications, also I apply to the role only if 70% and above role match with my previous experience also use referrals when available.

Also please roast my resume https://stonedmind.tiiny.site/ have redacted wherever necessary to stay anonymous as possible. For the first time in my career I have a doubt that my resume might not be upto the mark

Please let me know your views in the comments. Any help is appreciated.

To land 1 interview it took 60 job applications

Being a tier 3 college grad, It took me 700 applications to get 25 shortlists, and only 7 interview calls. Converted all of them. 
  
 Sometimes you’re just not allowed to participate in the race 🙂

I've recently appeared for the Interview at Apple. Total 7 rounds and last round was with the HR. Till 6th round feedback was quite positive and in the 7th Round there was discussion that happened about Salary expectation. HR mentioned that she will check and get back with approved numbers and If I'm okay then they will proceed with releasing the offer letter. So I was expecting the same.

But One week later HR called and rejected me saying that another Candidate is selected for this role. I was heartbroken and devastated. When I asked for the feedback, She said they cannot share the feedback it's just that they felt another candidate is better fit than me so they are going ahead with that candidate. On the very next day of my rejection call, they opened the Same position again in the Careers site.

After 2 weeks again I called the same HR to understand If I could apply for the open position. She said that the Careers site it posted wrongly, the open position is not for my experience but it's for more experienced/senior Level. I could think that HR is not being transparent. This time again I asked for feedback, what went wrong or what could have been better, to which she replied that I was not clear on certain things and I was not transparent.

Background is : After 6 rounds were done, HR called me suddenly one day and informed me that I cleared all the rounds and asked me for the expectation. I thanked her and asked about the Role (IC3 or IC4 or IC2) that I would likely get So that I can do some research and get back.
She said she doesn't have clarity yet on the Role and mentioned mostly it would be IC3. So I asked her for some time to get back and 2 hours later I discussed my expectations. 
Then a week later, the Rejection call.

Not sure what went wrong. In my most recent call she mentioned that for some simple questions like expectations I was not giving answers properly. It's been 3 weeks and I still could not come out of that rejection.

Rejected After clearing all the rounds at Apple

I recently completed my MBA from one of a premier B School, and I am a fresher,was placed in a fintech company and was supposed to join them previous month.
They are doing layoff and has extended our joining with no guarantee as of now. With placements of my college over, I am stuck in this market with no job and a lot of uncertainties, please let me know if there’s any potential opportunity at your company.

Placement offer - Revoked

Hey everyone, I hope you can help me out with this one query i have, is it fine to tell the interviewer that i got laid off when they ask why i am looking for a job change in this marker?
I have been WFH for 2 years, have 6L in liquidity for runway i guess, idk if it's safe or not but how is the job market currently. 
Recently gave interview in a tier 1 product based company, got rejected in 2nd round as well so what should be my plan now? 
How to tackle this feeling of being incompetent and anxiety?
I hope you can me out with these questions 😭

Got laid off today after asking for appraisal for 2 months.

Last month I interviewed with NoBroker for a Demand Servicing Head position. The process went like this:

2 rounds of screening with HR/TA - was okay, good conversations. After which they scheduled an interview with the Business Head for the particular team. This interview went well too. 

After this they sent me an assignment - the longest assignment I've ever worked on as a part of the recruitment process. It asked me to write multiple detailed SOPs for the sales team, build a demand forecast model, and a complete demand generation plan for an oddly specific scenario. They gave me 5 days for it. 

I worked my a** off, desperate to get the job as I've been unemployed for some time. I did the assignment close to perfection - spoke to so many industry folks in real estate and made realistic assumptions, covering all possibilities. 

All in all I've not been so confident about my work ever like I was in this case. I submit and they acknowledge. 

Few days go by, I follow up, only to be given generic delay reasons by HR. Eventually, after more than a week they rejected me. When I requested for feedback on the assignment they completely ghosted me. 

I don't know why I'm sharing this here, but it's been hard. I've been jobless for > 5 months and every such experience completely shatters my already low self esteem further.

Disappointing Interview @ Nobroker

Hang in there, the efforts you made for assignment will help you somewhere in future. Good luck!

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