The designer from IDEO never got feedback. Airbnb doesn’t provide it for “No Hire” decisions. She went to Stripe six months later, passed their loop, and now leads design for a payments team. Different values. Different rubric. Different outcome. The work of preparation is matching your evidence to their specific judgment criteria. Nothing else matters.

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