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Not for any job:

> Through a friend of a friend, I found out that Anthropic had an open position in the team implementing the secret, unreleased feature of Claude Desktop using enigo. I wrote a cover letter and sent out my application.

It's quite likely (and not necessarily bad) that they didn't really read the application. Most obviously, if they already chose someone but didn't close the deal yet, it's common for listings to still be up, but no-one will look at new applications unless their choice falls through.

Never assume a rejection is about you personally.

The nuance is it’s a job building with the tool he’s created. It’s like turning down the inventor of (insert DBMS here) to build a CRUD app.

They didn't even consider him, cause Anthropic received too many applications.

I may be wrong but They didn't even interview him I suppose let alone, consider him.

It's not that they didn't accept him. They just didn't read his application and told him as much.

Basically "tl;dr" is what they responded with to his job application.