Hey, Zack from XLab here. I’d be happy to provide a couple sentence feedback on your application if you send me an email.
The most common reasons for rejection before an interview were things like no indication of having US citizenship or student visa, ChatGPT-seeming responses, responses to the exercise that didn’t clearly and compellingly indicate how it was relevant for global catastrophic risk mitigation, or lack of clarity on how mission aligned the applicant was.
This is even more puzzling to me now, because I think I clearly satisfied all of these (I looked back over my responses, which I saved in a GDoc).
But thank you for the offer! If I get over my strong desire for anonymity I’ll be sure to reach out.
Edit: I say “clearly” not to add emphasis to my response (I didn’t mean for it to sound contrarian), but because these particular criteria seem easy to judge: they’re mostly not “how good are you at X” but rather “have you done X.”
Hey, Zack from XLab here. I’d be happy to provide a couple sentence feedback on your application if you send me an email.
The most common reasons for rejection before an interview were things like no indication of having US citizenship or student visa, ChatGPT-seeming responses, responses to the exercise that didn’t clearly and compellingly indicate how it was relevant for global catastrophic risk mitigation, or lack of clarity on how mission aligned the applicant was.
We appreciate the feedback, though.
This is even more puzzling to me now, because I think I clearly satisfied all of these (I looked back over my responses, which I saved in a GDoc).
But thank you for the offer! If I get over my strong desire for anonymity I’ll be sure to reach out.
Edit: I say “clearly” not to add emphasis to my response (I didn’t mean for it to sound contrarian), but because these particular criteria seem easy to judge: they’re mostly not “how good are you at X” but rather “have you done X.”