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Re:That time when I failed the Microsoft interview by LanceH on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @10:16AM (#49169348)
> My takeaway was that interviews are a game with their own rules, and you have to play by those rules

But you don't get to know the rules.

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Re:That time when I failed the Microsoft interview by ConceptJunkie on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @12:42PM (#49171378)
And when you break the rules, you get absolutely no feedback. You don't even know if you break the rules, or you were just beat by a candidate the interviewers preferred. I had to go through the process last year and hated almost every microsecond of it, except my interview with the place that actually hired me.

Back in the 90s, looking for a job wasn't so bad. Now it's a nightmare.

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