Ask HN: Making Sense of a FAANG Rejection
Hello all,<p>I’m using a throw away account so I don’t accidentally burn any bridges.<p>I recently interviewed at a FAANG (Facebook) and I got rejected. The part that confuses me is what they left me with. I was told that I did well on the behavioral and architecture portions of the interview, but they didn’t “have strong enough signal” from the technical.<p>For me, I’m baffled. I didn’t get stumped on any of the technical questions and I did have working solutions for every technical portion, including coming up with a solution one interviewer remarked as something they never saw before. So I’m very baffled. I’m really struggling to understand how I failed at this interview process despite what I feel were good solutions to the technical problems.<p>I was even told that I would have been an E4 if they had A slot open (honestly don’t know the scales well). I was also told that it was clear I have very strong domain knowledge and it was very apparent in the interviews.<p>I’m really struggling with this answer because on one hand I’m being told I did well and on the other I didn’t get adequate feedback about what they didn’t like despite explicitly asking. Is it a confidence thing? As someone who has very severe ADHD it can show when I’m nervous (I get very hyper and can really start to talk fast).<p>I can’t seem to wrap my head around this and now I feel like I blew up a life changing chance at bettering my life and those that depend on me.<p>Anyone have advice or insight to situations like this? I’m really struggling to make heads or tails of this situation