Ask HN: What to do after failing final interviews twice?
I know how you feel, but take solace in two facts:<p>1. Any good company will have a high false negative rate, because it&#x27;s more expensive to hire a bad candidate than reject a good one. That&#x27;s why the big ones (Amazon, Google, FB, etc) will keep re-interviewing you for the next few years. They know they make mistakes and want to try again under new circumstances.<p>2. If you actually are unqualified right now, you&#x27;re <i>very</i> close to being qualified! If you&#x27;ve made it to onsite interviews then you&#x27;re doing better than the majority of candidates. Most people are rejected at or before the phone screen. You&#x27;re close, give yourself another year of improving your craft and interview again.<p>Background: I worked at Amazon, and conducted interviews while there. I&#x27;ve conducted lots of interviews at a startup, I just interviewed at Google for the third time and finally got an offer (now 6 years after graduation). At all places, we optimized for false negatives.