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I feel like that was not that big of a deal. I mean was it a bad thing to say for multiple reasons? sure. But its still a good hour of content and no one says perfect things all the time.

It could be better. On the bright side, if you have a good fit with the right startup, it could be like 2-3 weeks from first contact to offer.

Lots of tiny shops move quick, but may need some sort of differentiator (highly relevant experience, a blog, cool portfolio/project, etc)

Great article and nice blog layout.

8 years seems like long enough. Did you actually buy 40 macbooks from different eras?

There's about 2x more people on the market right now vs pre pandemic around 2019 and at least 1/3 as many positions available.

So it's at least 5 times as many applicants per position.

When you got 10 people to pass step 1, and 5 people to pass step 2, and 3 people to pass step 3, its not that hard to send a "thanks but we need someone with xyz skill".

Now, the reasons are even more random and arbitrary.

Now you might have 100 people pass step 1, and 50 people to pass step 2, and 30 people to pass step 3. So companies are pickier, but also they tend to reject you more randomly.

I've done a few interviews and they would say stuff that basically said "i'm not really listening just browsing reddit while you're talking"

Kinda sad