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RE: Those interviewing at Lambda (rejected)

Luck of the draw with who decides to interview you, I had a guy from the admissions team with zero enthusiasm essentially just reading off of a list of questions. I tried to answer well but giving off good energy from a dead duck is hard. I also was more practical with my answers of wanting to get into coding, jump in profession, curious, experience as a BA, writing technical docs and general data analysis. Each response by the interview was simply: "hmmm ok." Rejected around ten minutes after my TEN minute call. PS tell them you love coding, live and breathe it, etc.




Hey there -- this isn't right, and I'd love to know more about what happened. Do you mind emailing me with more details? I'm tommy@lambdaschool.com


huh, didn't know there was another collison brother. you guys are like the weasleys.


Yes, the third brother isn’t quite as successful as the other two, who are brilliant. He works at a payments company in San Francisco.


This is standard tech recruiting even outside of Lambda


If it were an HR screening I would agree but I think there is some responsibility on the interviewer to remain engaged.




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