Developer Shares Experience of Being Rejected by Anthropic Despite Extraordinary Efforts
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9mo ago· 4 min readenNews
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Summary
A developer shares their experience of being rejected for a Developer Relations role at Anthropic despite going above and beyond expectations. They completed the required take-home assignment, received a strong internal recommendation, independently created and published diggit.dev (a tool related to Claude), wrote a positive blog post about their experiences with Claude, and even got their project to the front page of HackerNews. Despite these exceptional efforts, they were still rejected, leading to feelings of inadequacy and disappointment.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledI independently published diggit.dev and a companion blogpost about my [sincerely] positive experiences with Claude
I was hoping that some unsolicited 'extra credit' would make me look like an exceptional/ambitious candidate
I posted diggit.dev to HackerNews and it hit the frontpage!
My best wasn't good enough. I'm not good enough
I didn't misclick any buttons. My best wasn't good enough. I'm not good enough.
