2025 (mid) -Thoughts about rejection in job @arbyte
Date: 12 Nov, 2025
Accept the defeat and build from it. Don’t neglect but never doubt about your worth.
This feeling of, maybe i know nothing comes very often in my mind, but then I realize, learning never ends and if I am to be in this field, i need to have that mentality until I am old and lazy.
One person once said, you are just another person to those company people.
Long story short: It is simple, “I got rejected in the job at internship and I felt like the world ended”
During intern:
I simply took 2.. months challenge to learn about the product development form frontend to backend through “The Odin Project” and while not even completing it, i landed this small little intern.
The protest gen-z made the internship duration longer but I had so much free time, and I am naturally curious, I always feel time is running out, that’s why i decided to work on some other problem that was more real to me.
I was told to do a project https://hikebud-self.vercel.app/ I completed it but I had a lot of time like 15-18 days. Then I decided to work on another project with my friend, leaving the hikebud just functional without adding anything extra fancy because honestly I was told, just make it working, you don’t need to have whole lot of everything but just make it working and problem solving.
I followed that and I started working on another https://hamrofund.org , a project I am proud of because I feel I am actually doing something for society.
Presentation day
2 days before presentation, my laptop completely died. I had my project, i had my everything inside of it. I felt devastated and even told maybe I won’t be able to make it . I tried repairing whole night and another day thankfully I found old laptop of Milan dai, which was half broken. Installed new OS (omarchy), setup the project, made presentation and gave demo.
Had to buy a new laptop.
The projector in arch linux was a bit off and my presentation was not good and compared to others, my project was so simple and minimal but it was a problem solving one, and I learned quite a lot of things. And i guess it matters more than impressing others.
Rejection Process
I was not invited for the first round of interview and there I thought ok this is over. But they called and I gave an interview, which was supposed to be technical but it was normal conversation and looking back, they just took that interview to make my intern complete. They interviewed to reject.
Honest Opinion
I used to submit the assigned tasks by documenting in LaTeX, while my other friends didn’t know what LaTeX was. I used to even deploy my project and always used to do it fully, by completely adding new functionalities and new tech stack everytime. (eg: sometimes i would use postgres, sometimes mongo, prisma, drizzle) I tried every technologies to work with just to get experience. Because, I was scared when they showed me the production level code of the “tangible” platform they were working on.
I was asking questions, i was learning and yea I was doing everything all right, except for the final project which I made it just fine only.
I can still say, I was the most deserving. Just because i didn’t do much on the project that doesn’t mean I was doing nothing, i was working on hamrofund which is now launched and is something that I am proud og. I remember one dai saying, you can be selected before closing before dashain. I was honestly, exicted to take the opportunity and even after the interview I thought ok, it’s late I am getting a job. They replied a week late and I rejected 2 other internships just because I was sure about getting this job.
But yea, I got disappointed and haha … let’s see where this goes But since this was my first experience, I feel bad.
