Re:How I was rejected at Microsoft
by jsnell on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @01:50PM
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Surprising that they gave such detailed feedback. That's usually a big no-no. And for a good reason as we can see here. If the candidate disagrees with the feedback, he will get angry. But good luck with the search.
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I interviewed with one of the bigger org's at MS in Seattle about a month ago, they told us that they would be unable to give us feedback if we didn't receive an offer. I suppose different branches of MS could do things different?
Fortunately I didn't have to worry about that, starting this summer :)
Re:How I was rejected at Microsoft
by matheusalmeida on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @02:23PM
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I was also surprised about the detailed feedback. I was not expecting that. It was too superficial to help you to improve. I can say that I interviewed for Microsoft Dublin.
As a fellow new grad, good luck man!
I have also felt the hurt of rejection.. I got in a few stages at Google, got dumped. I made it to a final interview at Apple, and they bailed. Applied to Pixar, Mozilla, 10gen, twitter, etc... also with little to no word back at all.
Honestly I feel like the #1 thing I learned from my job search is that the interviewer you get has a insane impact on the outcome. This is especially true of technical phone interviews, I felt like I was literally unable to communicate with some of the interviewers at google because of a language barrier. The whole process seems heavily based on luck.
Depends I guess. I really appreciated the comments that I receive after getting rejected by a startup funder. And while the OP is not happy, he at least provides constructive criticism to the process.