(9) How does it feel to not get a return offer from the company you interned in? - Quora

(9) How does it feel to not get a return offer from the company you interned in? - Quora

For a company with a 85% return offer rate, I thought that I would get a full time offer for certain. But this experience has taught me that not to take anything for granted.

During my internship:

• I sent long, sloppy code reviews to my mentor (~1000 lines of code/review)
• I skipped some team meetings to work on my project
• I didn't take the time to fully understand Amazon's internal build and deployment systems.

As you can see, I was, simply put, was not a "polished and ready" Software Engineer at the time. Like some others, I was lost in the company trying to find the information that I needed for my projects. For me, I know that there is a lot for me to improve and not getting an offer this time has actually helped me grow more than if I had gotten an offer.

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