💬 MOTIVATIONAL / DISCUSSION - The Uncomfortable Truth About Rejections

Here's something senior engineers rarely say out loud: almost everyone gets rejected by companies they were genuinely qualified for. Not because they were bad candidates - because interviewing has enormous variance. A different interviewer, a slightly different question, a slightly off day, and the same person gets a completely different outcome.

This isn't meant to lower the bar - it's meant to correct a mental model that causes real damage: treating every single rejection as objective proof you're "not good enough."

The engineers who eventually land great offers aren't the ones who never get rejected. They're the ones who treat each rejection as one data point, extract whatever's actually learnable from it (was there a real skill gap, or was it just variance?), and keep going.

If you're in the middle of a job search right now and it's been rough - you're not alone, and it's not necessarily a reflection of your actual ability.

What's one thing that's kept you going during a tough job search? Let's hear it 👇