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I interviewed the people who rejected me. Here's what their hiring process is actually optimizing for.

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Last week I wrote about getting rejected from a job for "relying on AI" in the coding round — by an interviewer I'd watched read an AI answer off his own screen forty minutes earlier. I thought the story was about hypocrisy. Then a reader replied with something sharper, and it reframed the whole th…

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  1. 2026-09-22 04:51 · DEV Community — AI
    I interviewed the people who rejected me. Here's what their hiring process is actually optimizing for.

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