It's crucial to retrain your brain not to have negative feelings toward those who have a lot of money. Otherwise you will subconsciously undermine yourself to ensure you never get a lot of money.
You put me in the interview loop last time after Sam introduced us via email in 2018. I even told you in that email that I lacked a degree, 2 months later received the following email from someone at Flexport:
>Hope all is well, Ryan! I wanted to extend a virtual wave and thank you for your interest in joining our team. You obviously have many of the skills we're looking for. However, for the Customs Brokerage role we require a BA/BS degree as well as previous experience in a broker role doing entries and customs classifications.
>Based on your background, there is no doubt that you will shine in your next career endeavor. In the meantime, I hope you have a fantastic rest of your week!
>All the best,
>REDACTED
At that time I was unmarried and did not own a house and was somewhat open to moving to another state to work for you. Now that's not much of an option, my wife is a public school teacher and we've been home owners for a year now.
It's still worth following up, especially since this is fresh in their mind from this fairly public posting. :)
> At that time I was ... open to moving to another state to work for you. Now that's not much of an option
Many tech orgs are much more supportive of remote working now than they used to be, so you might be able to be a remote member of their team. Chances are they now (post covid) have most of the infrastructure and culture already in place to support that. This seems like a golden opportunity to join an engineering team where you can grow and thrive.
Piggybacking on a response in another subthread: if someone offers you an opportunity, jump on it. Things can change in three years. Worst case you spend a couple emails to figure out that you are still not a good fit, but don't ignore opportunities. Wish I could say this loudly enough to everyone.
I was introduced to him last time, he said he could help. Passed me along. I was rejected, reported back, then was reached out to by an internal recruiter and apologized to for a misunderstanding and given an interview. 3~ minutes into the phone interview my phone digned with an email notification, about 10 minutes later when we hung up with a "we will be in touch" I checked the email and found it to be a rejection saying
>Hope you're doing well, Ryan. I wanted to drop you a note to let you know that after discussions with the team, it seems we’re not quite the right fit for your skills at this time.
>Please know that this was an incredibly tough decision for us to make as REDACTED and I enjoyed getting to know you.
Sometimes an opportunity isn't worth jumping on. I was sent a rejection email while actively on the call still being interviewed... after they had already told me I wasn't good enough for not having a degree when I told the founder of the company I did not have a degree before he passed me off to an internal recruiter.
I'm not sure I want to work for a company that rejected me twice in one process, one of the times by shooting me an email rejecting me while I was still on the phone with them in the middle of an interview. To me that says I was already rejected and the interview was a formality to check a box as the individual REDACTED was the one on the phone with me, so how did he confer with her - while still on the phone with me for several more minutes- to decide I wasn't a good fit?
I may want a new job, but sometimes you have to exercise some serious skepticism and even just say no.
Flexport was and still is a fast-growing startup. It's possible that you reached out 3 years ago, someone put you into the recruiting engine and things got mixed up. Most established companies have crappy recruiting processes, let alone fast growing startups. It doesn't mean they are bad places to work, only that they have room for improvement in their recruiting process. Maybe things are little better now. It's also possible you didn't interview well 3 years ago, but maybe you will this time.
Either way, why not give them another chance? Flexport has a lot of credibility in the tech space and can be a good resume item to move into other areas of tech. Besides, the hiring market is way better than in 2018... companies are desperate for good workers and can't afford to pass on them these days.
You're gonna publicly confront this person who has reached out to you? I think you just lost a lot of goodwill from the participants of this discussion.
It actually makes me wonder how responsible you are for the misfortune you've experienced in your career.
The correct response here was "Thank you very much, I'll be in touch!" or something to that effect. I agree publicly confronting the recruiter is a bit of a strange move here, not sure what outcome they are hoping for.
I don't think it's the recruiter, but the CEO/founder. And it's not confrontation, he wanted to public offer help so I publicly pointed out he's done that before and it resulted in sitcom like results.
I doubt a recruiter is going to have the ryan@ email address over the CEO/founder.
People were locked down so they stopped spending money on services (hotels, restaurants, travel, massage, etc) and instead bought more goods. This happened at the same time governments printed trillions and pumped it into the hands of consumers and businesses. The result was a 20% surge in container volumes, which our supply chain infra just wasn't ready for.
As well as rolling labor blackouts as factories had to shut down (repeatedly) because people got sick and they couldn't risk everyone getting sick. And distribution centers. And retail. Etc etc.
I loved bullshitting about this with my friends when I was young. Probably wouldn't be nearly such an eerie and fun movie if I saw it for the first time later in life.
The answer to the bonus question is opium. In particular the Forbes family (not related to the magazine folks) traded about 20% of all the opium sold in China during this period with the other 80% coming from the British East India Company and other UK-based trading houses.
Fun fact, the Forbes family is still one of the wealthiest families in America, they own their own massive private island called Naushon Island right next to Martha's Vineyard. They also have their own family museum in Boston where you can learn about their trading history in Asia which I'm super eager to visit And the patriarch of the Forbes Family today is... wait for it... John Kerry. When Obama made Kerry his secretary of state the Chinese weren't super thrilled, they have a long memory.
