How's the hunt treating you?
Amazon · rejectedFour rounds, a full day of my life, and the feedback was a sentence a template could have written. I do not need a dissertation, but a single concrete thing to improve would turn this from a dead end into a lesson.
"Closer fit" is HR for "we cannot legally tell you the real reason". Do not read into it.
Deloitte · rejectedNot even enough time to open the resume. Somewhere an ATS filter is very confident about me based on a keyword I did not put in bold. The machine said no before a human said hello.
Tailor the keywords to the JD, the bot reads before the human does. Grim but true.
Google · rejectedEvery interviewer said hire, the committee said no. Apparently that happens more than people admit, the packet did not have a strong enough signal on one axis. Cleared the humans, lost to the process. Reapplying in a year, they said I could.
HC rejects after clean rounds are brutal and common. The 12-month reapply is real, use it.
Flipkart · rejectedI told them plainly I wanted the scope and the team, not a title. Did not matter. "You will be bored and leave." I promise I will happily do the work I applied for. Please just let me.
"Overqualified" is code for "we are scared you will ask for more later". Frustrating.
Swiggy · rejectedBuild a whole feature, tests, a writeup, "about two hours" (it was nine). Then a form rejection with zero comment on the actual submission. If you are going to make me build it, at least tell me what was wrong with it.
Unpaid nine-hour take-homes with no feedback should be illegal. Value your weekend.
Meta · rejectedCorrect, clean, but not fast enough for the Meta bar. Speed is a hidden graded axis. Went home and started doing timed sets instead of untimed practice. Painful signal, but a useful one.
Accenture · rejectedLogged in to check and the status just said "not selected". No message, no call. The quiet status flip is somehow worse than a clear no. At least a no is closure.
Oracle · rejectedWriting it down because in my head it feels like a hundred. It is eleven. Still a lot, still tiring, but naming the real number helps me not spiral. On to twelve.
Eleven is a lot and also survivable. The counting trick genuinely helps. Rooting for you.
Salesforce · rejectedSigned, resigned my old job, then the offer got pulled in a reorg two weeks before joining. Legal in most places, devastating in all of them. Do not resign until the start date is locked and, if you can, keep a backup warm.
A rescinded offer after you resigned is a nightmare. Never burn the old bridge too early.
Wipro · rejectedI asked politely and specifically. "Keep practicing and apply again." Practicing what? The one thing that would make the whole rejection worthwhile and they will not give it.
You've reached the Mariana Trench. That's everything for now.