[HN Gopher] Show HN: I made a website to share rejection letters
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Show HN: I made a website to share rejection letters
Hi HN, First time posting on Show HN. Spent two weeks over
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Author : jeron
Score : 81 points
Date : 2024-01-18 18:26 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (rejectedagain.lol)
(TXT) w3m dump (rejectedagain.lol)
| frantic2821 wrote:
| it would be great if you could link it to rejection letters from
| past years and show where they are now? those posts exist out
| there right?
| baq wrote:
| Great way to stop companies from sending you even that,
| unfortunately :/
| imiric wrote:
| Exactly. I'm usually a proponent of informing candidates why
| they were rejected, if they went through at least a couple of
| interview rounds. I think it's the least a company can do after
| they invested the time and effort to apply and go through the
| interviews.
|
| But sites like this make this hard to justify. Most of the ones
| I saw on the front page are standard generic responses. If
| that's what it takes to get on rejectedagain.lol then you're
| encouraging companies to just ghost you instead.
| V-eHGsd_ wrote:
| I once got a rejection letter from a recruiter, complete with the
| boilerplate, "we'll keep you in mind for future positions" from a
| noreply@ email address.
| napolux wrote:
| oof
| Tommah wrote:
| Poor old Lenore "Nore" Ply is wondering why nobody ever emails
| her.
| LeafItAlone wrote:
| What am I missing is wrong with that?
| evilduck wrote:
| They expect it to be from a company that's better at
| masquerading that their email is sent from a real human's
| inbox instead of lumped in with the rest of their automated
| emails default config values.
| beanjuiceII wrote:
| I made a site of my rejected letters, unfortunately the body tags
| are empty _flexes_
| politician wrote:
| The worst are the small companies who say that they will keep
| your resume "on file". Has that ever worked out for anyone?
| datadrivenangel wrote:
| For my current job, I almost had an issue during the interview
| process because the recruiter had my old resume that was still
| in the system from the first time I was referred three years
| ago.
| SteveDR wrote:
| I applied to some internships to 2 huge consulting firms
| everyone knows, got denied, and I wasn't able to fill out
| able to apply to full time roles with the same email address
| a year later
| ska wrote:
| For what it's worth, I have hired people this way in the past.
|
| I know multiple people who keep a "good candidates" file of
| some sort.
|
| Agree sometimes it may be meaningless boilerplate.
| eddd-ddde wrote:
| It actually worked for me. I applied for a position a while
| ago, no interview. Then one year later a recruiter from the
| company reached out to me saying I should apply for a new
| position. So I did, and I got an internship that way!
| bagels wrote:
| Yes. I got rejected, and then a couple months later they
| figured out that the role they were trying to fill wasn't
| actually what they were looking for. I was hired, stayed for 4
| years, and built out the team. It was a success.
| jorts wrote:
| I've had scenarios where one candidate ticks all the boxes and
| we hire them, and we have another great candidate who was
| earlier in the hiring funnel that I stay in touch with even if
| we don't have an open requisition at the time. I've gone on to
| hire folks months later if they're still open to looking at
| opportunities.
| gensym wrote:
| I've been on the other side where as the hiring manager, I've
| had recruiting contact prior candidates. Sometimes there
| legitimately are more high-quality candidates than open roles
| at a given time.
| the_gastropod wrote:
| It's funny just how terribly many of these are written. That
| Palantir example has got to be my favorite. Check out this hum-
| dinger of a sentence:
|
| > It was a pleasure to learn more about your skills and
| accomplishments; however, I'm afraid that after careful
| consideration, we regret to inform you that we do not have any
| positions that are a fit for your experience and skills at this
| time.
| gnicholas wrote:
| I was rejected by Palantir years ago. The recruiter called and
| said that I wasn't technical enough. I replied that none of my
| interviewers asked me a single technical question (I was
| interviewing to be a lawyer there). The recruiter was slightly
| embarrassed and said she'd follow up after investigating. Of
| course, I never heard back.
| jeron wrote:
| the palantir one was one I received, I successfully solved the
| hackerrank but still got rejected :(
| gnicholas wrote:
| It wasn't the intended purpose, but I might consult this site
| before sending a rejection letter. Some of the language used is
| awful, of course, but some of it is fine.
| hasty_pudding wrote:
| That's really funny. I had the exact same idea!!! Glad somebody
| made it happen.
|
| the mobile display needs work ;)
| jeron wrote:
| hmm mobile is working alright for me - what does it look like
| for you?
| BugsJustFindMe wrote:
| I note that there's zero attempt to verify that any of the
| messages actually came from the companies they purport to have
| come from.
|
| I dislike corpos as much as the next guy, but there's no reason
| to treat these as anything other than completely made up by
| randos on the internet.
|
| Personally I'd anticipate a string of defamation lawsuits from
| something like this. And dick pics. I'm actually surprised that
| so far there's only a bunch of garbage and not dick pics.
| hashtag-til wrote:
| Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.
|
| These e-mails are all templated waffle, crafted to avoid legal
| liability. Don't ever take it personally.
|
| I find it very entertaining to read the real and the fake ones.
| lifestyleguru wrote:
| Had similar idea, e.g. identifying typical sections of a
| rejection letter and creating random letter from the hundreds of
| them I have received. Gave up the idea. Nobody cares about your
| bitterness. It's impersonate, someone found your CV repulsive and
| simply clicked send button.
| byt3blight wrote:
| The Deloitte one is written quite well.
|
| "We have determined that our position isn't ideally suited to
| your talents...."
| idrios wrote:
| The best rejection letter I ever got was a personal note from the
| person hiring, saying "You were good, but we just needed someone
| who is stronger with [x], [y], and [z]". It felt actionable
| because it told me things I could improve on.
|
| Aside from that one, the rejections that were the least self-
| esteem-damaging were ones that said "we've decided not to fill
| the position". Even if not true, it's a good "it's not you it's
| me" type of rejection.
| hashtag-til wrote:
| An actionable feedback is quite good. To be fair, when
| recruiting we usually pass the feedback to those nice HR folks,
| who basically throw them away.
| drawnwren wrote:
| I wonder how much of this is just their salary depending on
| the hiring market being as inefficient as possible. Seems
| like clear communication could go a long way to reducing HR
| workloads.
| blahyawnblah wrote:
| A lot of companies won't say why for fear of litigation
| tqi wrote:
| Yeah, I think the risk is that there is a larger surface
| area for recruiters or hiring managers to do it badly:
| https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/zenni-49ers-glasses-
| disc...
| geuis wrote:
| I just had one like this from a well known company over
| Christmas. I had made it to the first interview and it went
| exceptionally well. I received a follow up the next day that
| they were excited to continue and the hiring manager would
| reach out soon to schedule the next round of interviews.
|
| Unfortunately a day later I got a notice from them that the
| role I was interviewing for was being closed down. They
| encouraged me to look for other roles I was interested in and
| we could continue from there. I sent two, and then right after
| new years was informed they were freezing all hiring until mid
| January when they finalized their new head count. Then they
| were among the number of companies announcing new layoffs in
| the last couple weeks.
|
| Talk about disappointed but still being appreciative. I'm still
| excited about maybe getting on with the company one day simply
| because they treated the hiring process with a lot of respect
| and didn't waste my time. It wasn't a me thing, but just bad
| news coming down from higher up internally.
| dmurray wrote:
| > Aside from that one, the rejections that were the least self-
| esteem-damaging were ones that said "we've decided not to fill
| the position".
|
| "We'd rather have no one than you!" seems like it should be
| more insulting, really. But I get it.
| otteromkram wrote:
| Conversely, the worst ones are those that are super generic and
| hit your inbox at 3am. On the weekend.
| devwastaken wrote:
| Sounds like a great opportunity to connect and create startups to
| replace these fumbling monoliths.
| bagels wrote:
| Some of these are clearly troll posts.
|
| This can't be an actual message from OpenAI though?
|
| Thank you for considering OpenAI for your next career move.
| Amazing that you thought you had a chance. Try Microsoft.
| lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
| Would be funnier if they said, "Try Deepmind."
| anticorporate wrote:
| My favorite rejection letters are of the "We received an
| overwhelming volume of well-qualified applicants" sort.
| Especially when it's for a position that's so niche that you know
| there's a good chance that you personally know most of the other
| people who would actually meet the stated requirements.
| sakopov wrote:
| > Thank you for considering OpenAI for your next career move.
| Amazing that you thought you had a chance. Try Microsoft.
|
| This can't be real.
| geuis wrote:
| Yeah that's not. Notice how the one below it is also a joke,
| the "banana stand" one. The others read as legitimate.
| eriknj99 wrote:
| You might want to add a confirmation popup to the report button.
| I clicked it not knowing what it was and accidentally reported a
| post.
| peblos wrote:
| [delayed]
| mrkramer wrote:
| This is brilliant! I have quite a few rejection letters too.
| mvdtnz wrote:
| I have a doozy but I'm not comfortable sharing it without
| blanking the name of the company. The short version is I went
| through a ridiculous 7-stage interview process only to be told at
| the end (the night before my 8th and final interview) that they
| really liked me, got excellent feedback but were no longer hiring
| for that position.
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