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Gee, I am also very tired of people for which stuff went well, and think it is be the same for others. Can't you even imagine there is a variety of situations out there? Can't you imagine it may happen to you one day? Do you think people who encounter this kind of problems never had a shiny position earlier, and their "social skills" were considered perfect before some conceited internet stranger decided they were "socially inept"?
And you dare to talk about "experience", seriously?
I did not call the author "socially inept"; that sentence was a hypothetical example of how an individual's incredible technical skills can be overshadowed by other problems.
I am sorry if I offended you. I thought my posts were critical but logical...
As someone who watched previous coworkers, who are older, go through the interview ringer, I can sympathize with the author on the pigeonhole one can get stuck in due to seemingly trivial reasons: I don't have a classic CS background, people think I'm past my prime, etc.
These aren't imaginary problems, and I struggle to believe that I would be all "go-getter" and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" after continually being rejected, too.