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  1. 26 Mar 2021

    I received 600 rejections before I Apparently I can’t take no for an answer 🤷🏼‍♂️

  2. 23 Aug 2018

    Netflix recruiter emailed, I was happily employed. Scheduled for 4 but interviewed with 6 people, including Eng VP VP comes in, hard sells me to relocate. 20 mins in, looks at my resume “You’ve only been doing this 1 year?” Interview ended immediately.

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  3. 26 Sep 2020

    Writing is not for the faint of heart. Getting rejected constantly, it fucks with you at times. I’m not gonna lie. Sometimes I wonder, what’s the point of doing this. But something in me won’t give up. I keep going. ✊🏾 onward!

  4. 23 Aug 2018

    Interviewing with Google for the Firebase team. 7 interviews in 8 hours. Felt great. Later was told I'm "Googly" but the hiring committee felt my questions were too easy. Set up a "final call". Bombed it. Rejected cause "it's clear you know React but not JS"

  5. 21 Aug 2018

    They only reluctantly auditioned me for this advert despite the character description literally having my name on it. Then I didn’t get it 🤷🏻‍♀️

  6. 4 May 2019

    Hear Ye, Hear Ye ( 🌸🙏🏼❤️) Memorial Day Mon May 27 is the day! Follow for more details and share it with writers looking to connect!

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  7. 20 Aug 2018

    I once interviewed with GoodEggs and they rejected me for "culture fit" because when they asked me about Agile I said it wasn't a cure all and wasn't always the best choice. I co-founded npm 2 months later.

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  8. 21 Aug 2018

    When I was living in the UK, I got rejected by Oracle and SpringSource where I even had a hard time paying for the transportation to travel to the interviews. (walked on the way back). Then I started PrimeFaces and build PrimeTek.

  9. 26 Mar 2021

    I received over 140 rejections over several years before I It was worth it. Your story is worth your wait. YOU are worth the wait. What’s your story to yes?

  10. 27 Aug 2019

    Last year my first screenplay was optioned to be made, but it fell through. That same week I lost several contests. Went through a bout of depression, but got it together and rewrote the script. I won Best Feature Script earlier this year.👍😀👍

  11. 27 Aug 2018

    7 years ago, officials from various Ministry of Education and curriculum development bodies told me robotics had no place in Ugandan schools.

  12. 23 Aug 2018

    I was rejected by Etsy one year into my career. At the end of the a long day of interviews, they asked me to code a CS problem (Conway's Game of Life) in a language that I definitely didn't know (PHP).

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  13. A manager in NYC told me “you’re for tv not stand up” and that “the road isn’t for women” and 2 years later, I sold out 5 shows at & just toured 23 sold out shows in 14 days.

  14. 22 Aug 2018

    “I just don’t believe a girl could be this thick.” My first (unproduced) feature script, based on me, and real experiences from my life.

  15. Back when I was an actor, I auditioned for a big musical , and though I was called back I was told I was a great singer but the stage couldn't be made accessible. Went to another audition, and the director loved me so much, they built a ramp onto the stage.

  16. 7 Jan 2019

    In August, started the hashtag. I Tweeted a few of my many rejections over the years. Some suggested I turn the Tweets into a piece so here it is. Thanks to the brilliant for believing in my piece and for her excellent editing work.

  17. 20 Aug 2018

    I was rejected from a programming bootcamp so I learned to code on my own. Then I was rejected from 50+ dev jobs until I found the awesome folks at . Now I get to help developers everywhere use @GCPcloud ML.

  18. This still makes me laugh - blind peer review at its finest. Try for an open and brutally transparent peer review process.

  19. Being a scientist means dealing with repeated rejections

  20. 23 Aug 2018

    One time in my old house I was singing to myself and didn’t realise we had a plumber over. He shouted “Don’t quit your day job” at me and it proper bummed me out. 3 years later music is my day job. Suck it

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