Regular people step on a rake once and learn their lesson. Software engineers? We're out here playing 4D parkour through an obstacle course of rejection.
Send CV, interview with HR, interview with developers, technical interview, and THEN get rejected. It's like a video game where you have to defeat four bosses just to unlock the "Sorry, we went with someone internal" achievement. The tech hiring process has more stages than a SpaceX rocket launch, except the rocket actually makes it to orbit sometimes.
The best part? Each stage makes you think "this is going well!" until you're doing a live coding session while three engineers judge your variable naming choices. Then silence for two weeks before the automated rejection email arrives at 3 AM.
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