Today only I had my Managerial round with Trufan for the SDE role. Obviously I got rejected. Neither because I was technically bad because I was dominating the interview.  But that's not the bad th...

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Today only I had my Managerial round with Trufan for the SDE role. Obviously I got rejected. Neither because I was technically bad because I was dominating the interview.

But that's not the bad that happens with me today. Maybe with that I will overcome this within 1-2 days. But actually what I lost due to this rejection . This rejection hit me a self doubt and due to this i have to submit a assignment for another organisation the assignment was almost complete just final touches remaining, but I didn't submit that. Then I had to deliver 2 YouTube videos for 2 clients didn't submit that and obviously lost the hope because in the last 3-4 months I gave more than 10-15 interviews but still no job. 

This  is the maximum that I have lost due to a rejection. And there is o compensation on this from neither side. Neither from industry not from company.

Now I am losing this marathon. If I don't get a job sooner will leave this and will open a chai ka thela.

With My last Interview I have lost almost everything.

Software Engineer

With My last Interview I have lost almost everything.- Grapevine

I am a senior software engineer with 6 + yoe mainly into backend (java and golang tech stack).

I am currently serving my notice period with no offer in hand.(my last day is April 30)

I have applied and given interviews to almost 12 companies and failed after clearing 2 or 3 rounds.

I feel that I am losing confidence in my skills when I face such rejection even though I shouldn't.

I feel like whatever answer I give during interviews is wrong and I constantly try to lookup the internet in the middle of interviews in fear of getting rejected.


Even though I know things very well I try to validate it and then mug up whatever is written on the internet and whenever a new question is asked which I haven't seen earlier where I would be required to think , i blank out.


This has never happened to me earlier.. I need some advice on how do I keep confidence in my skill and start solving things on my own.

Looking for advice

Backend Engineer

Its been 3 months since I left my last company after completing 8 months of internship, I rejected the full time offer because I was exploited and work culture was very toxic, since then I applied to more than 100+ jobs online and hardly converted 5 interviews and got 1 offer for part time which is soon going to be revoked, assuming from the company's behaviour. At this point I have lost all the motivation to work, improve and apply for jobs I am tired and drowing in self doubt. It even kills me to see the people who are not skilled as I am are getting good jobs and salary. With all this my family is not so supportive and not a single day has passed where I didn't get into arguments with my parents.

Struggling with Job Search and Self-Doubt

UX/UI Designer

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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

Can anyone help me with a sde or frontend or backend developer role I'm a 2024 passout worked in a startup for 10 months. Here's my skillset C,c++,Java, Javascript,Nodejs, SQL, python , a little bit of react, 
I mostly worked on list views, redirection , data modelling using mongoose 
I worked on a project where the pharama companies can request their new license or renewal their expired license seems easy but need to pass through various checks including government and different users so how to handle all these were too hectic 
So please anyone who is ok to refer me with a decent package is appreciated.

Help for fresher role

Software Developer

Hello grapeviners. 

I was recently interviewing at a big MNC and gave 5 rounds of interviews. (4 Tech, 1 Managerial). I did fairly well in the interviews (according to me).
Got rejected in the end and received no feedback... Just a generic rejection mail.

How do you guys keep up with failures like these?
Whenever I give interviews at a good company and perform well, I tend to imagine myself as a future employee in that company and how my life would be after joining there... and it really breaks my heart when I get rejected. This happened to me few times before as well and I still have no idea how to move on from feelings like these.

Really interested to know what do you folks do in situations like these... How do you calm yourself down?

Interview Rejection

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I interned at a company for more than 10 months.
Gave my heart and soul to it
They made me work late nights, gave me so much work
I completed them all
And now they denied a full time offer citing budget reasons
I feel like a loser now. This is so not fair. Now placements at college are also over so theres no hope left
Completely loss of words.
I don't know what to do
Can someone please guide me

Feeling dejected, demotivated, loser

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

I work in a well know product company but still I am unable to get any interview calls or even a email. Once I apply, all I am getting is rejection mail or no response. Is my resume bad? I have gotten promotion in my current job and also did some great achievements. What am I missing?

Trying for job switch but unable to get any calls or interviews. What am I doing wrong?

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This is just a post to vent out frustration about being rejected in the final round after weeks of preparation and attending interview rounds. 

Just got rejected in a final round, 3rd time in last 3 weeks. Feels so hopeless and lost. I can't really blame the market either as people are switching.

I realize this is just a part of process and we signed up for it but still sucks big time...

Last round rejection sucks!

Senior Associate

I don’t think I can do even one week more of job search. 

Bangalore Startup’s have lost it - I am being offered 4-6L peanut salary because I am fresher and need a lot of training but the assignments I get for the process are full on product launch-GTM case studies. I mean WTF

It was better if I was looking for a sales role 4L salary and seedha normal sales interview.

I don’t think how they think that I can make their GTM in under 2 days and at the same time need a lot of training.

Startup’s have Lost it

Growth Manager

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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.

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?

Hi Grpeviners, I've given so many interviews. Qualified technical rounds for many but have been ghosted several times. Like the HR stops receiving my calls or they say at the end that sorry we want someone to join within 45 days. Sometimes they say, sorry we got some candidate from our organization and list is never ending. I feel very disheartened due to this ongoing scenario. Why is this happening to me, what should I improve in myself? Am I out of budget, notice period? Please help!

Constant rejection, ghosting by HR after qualifying technical rounds

Consultant

Not able to get into HR rounds after doing well in technical interviews. 

Comp1: cleared 5 technical rounds.  They asked me to come in person for a particular date, informed me that date and time will be informed later. After a week got rejection mail. 

Comp2: Done well in the technical round. Profile was in process status  in the company portal for the last 45 days.  Today I got a rejection mail. 

Mera life ithna kharab hogaya.... Ithna kharab hogaya..

Ghosting companies

Cloud Architect

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

My contract was terminated last month citing restructuring.
Honestly, I saw it coming but wasn't expecting it would hit like this

I tried keeping my mind distracted, but now it has started to sink

I live with parents and they aren't saying anything (they were feeding me before and still are, no change for them)

I have had thoughts of ending all this, but do not have the courage. What if it ends halfway and I am redundant my whole life?

Credit card bills are coming through now and being 42% of my ex-salary wasn't something I was prepared for. I thought I was a sane spender.

How did you tackle being laid off?

Keep looking around, apply and eventually you're bound to get a good job I promise you. Just treat it as a numbers game. Ask your parents help with the credit card bills if you don't have enough corpus, there is no shame in that. You can give the money back to them when you're in a better position. 
  
 You're a nice person from what I know of you in this platform, you got this sis! Ending it all is not a good option for the people who care about you, and you're probably gonna look back later and smile and be glad for making it through

Application Analyst

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.

Hi guys,
So I resigned from a unicorn recently because it was hell toxic and I was getting anxiety attacks. So I put in my papers, but the twist in the story is they curtailed my notice period. So now, I am jobless and feeling completely lost. Though interviews are in the pipeline but I didn’t get chance to prepare even during weekends due to excessive workload. Now, I got rejected in multiple companies . Also, I tried rescheduling a few interviews and the HRs got pissed off and said the position has already been filled (which is not true). So, now I am preparing but still feeling like a complete loser and losing confidence.

Feeling like a loser

So, I fucked up an interview real bad 2 days ago, and my mind is unable to process it and cannot forget about it.

Don't know why I am feeling worthless from inside and feeling like this was my last interview. 

Maybe it's because of close to 40% hike I was getting on my fixed part. 

The results will be out by tomorrow and I am not gonna make it, I am pretty sure. 

I know life has something good in store for me and I am not seeing the future, almighty has seen it and he's simply driving me towards the path I am made for. 

But, how do I process it?

With My last Interview I have lost almost everything.

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