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Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by WalterBright on Thursday April 15, 2021 @10:57PM (#26828893)
If you get feedback that doesn't make much sense, it's likely not the real reason. Just like if a date rejects you, they'll give some silly fake reason why.
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Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by procombo on Friday April 16, 2021 @04:49AM (#26831307)
Sometimes the reason they give you is just the one that pushed you over the edge. At Amazon being "insufficiently succinct" is a greater err than one might think.
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Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job? by ryandrake on Friday April 16, 2021 @11:38AM (#26835216)
> insufficiently succinct

I like that one. I've done interviews where the answer should be at most a summary sentence, and 2-3 supporting points. I know the candidate knows the answer, it's a warmup question! Then what do I get? Word salad. A gigantic run-on sentence where the candidate talks and talks and talks and this, and that, and also, and furthermore... lasting 5 minutes or until I politely interrupt with, "OK let's move on to the next question."

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