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I received 600 rejections before I
#GotToYes Apparently I can’t take no for an answer
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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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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! #pipelinewriters#shareyourrejections pic.twitter.com/F26oZ8u4hC
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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"
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They only reluctantly auditioned me for this advert despite the character description literally having my name on it. Then I didn’t get it
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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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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.
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I received over 140 rejections over several years before I
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#ShareYourRejections 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.


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7 years ago, officials from various Ministry of Education and curriculum development bodies told me robotics had no place in Ugandan schools.
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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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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
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#ShareYourRejections “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. -
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.
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In August,
@theferocity started the#ShareYourRejections 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@saribotton for believing in my piece and for her excellent editing work.https://twitter.com/Longreads/status/1082316184022929409 … -
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
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This still makes me laugh - blind peer review at its finest. Try
@Meta_Psy for an open and brutally transparent peer review process.#phdchat#shareyourrejections pic.twitter.com/Y55Czuz9zK
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Being a scientist means dealing with repeated rejections
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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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