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Re:How I was rejected at Microsoft by bjg on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @02:20PM (#2438444)
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 :)

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Re:How I was rejected at Microsoft by matheusalmeida on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @02:23PM (#2438461)
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.
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Re:How I was rejected at Microsoft by bjg on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @02:32PM (#2438497)
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.

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