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Comment by sgt101 | Hacker News Reader

This is pretty odd, surely they saw your CV before the interview? Perhaps ask your contact at these companies for more feedback?

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How is that odd - the whole point of interviews, and especially on-site ones, is to decide whether or not someone is 1) qualified to do the job, and 2) a good fit for the role/team/company.

A CV only tells you so much after all,

I think that any candidate who is not "qualified" for a job would either have the qualifications on their CV or not. You might say that the candidate hasn't got the right experience or hasn't demonstrated the capabilities required - but "not qualified" doesn't make sense for a mature organisation interviewing candidates. If it was followed with " and we have sacked the bozos who invited you for an interview. I'm really sorry for wasting your time. Best..." then fair enough.

Everything is relative. At a company, I was a top dog, by an order of magnitude (if such things can be quantified) at developing software in my field. I thought I was pretty damn good at it, and put something to that effect on my resume.

Later on, I applied to a different company, and while I got hired...holy shit. I have one hell of an imposer syndrome, because an "average" dev there can seriously show me a trick or two...or a hundred. The top of the food chains might as well be gods among mortals in my view.

So really, a resume only tells you what the applicant THINKS their qualifications are. Nothing more.

They do not tell what you failed. But just that the interviewing/hiring committee didn't a make a decision

Ok.

1. It's normal.

2. Don't worry.

3. You got the interviews, lots of people didn't. That's a pat on the back there.

4. There are lots of other companies.

5. Focus on your strengths. Keep going, push on, and you can come back to these companies in a year or less with much more strength and steel than now.

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