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Google rejected me and now I'm building a search engine

The minute he walked in the door I knew it was over. “So your other interviews were easy eh?” he said.

This was an interview for a graduate position, and I’d just finished my PhD in computational linguistics. My heart started to pound and I knew I wouldn’t be able to focus. He didn’t ask me about my PhD work building a new theory of natural language semantics.

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