Rejected for having 4 days less experience than a year [duplicate]

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I recently got rejected from an opportunity just because I have experience 4 days less than a year. The company requires minimum experience of 12 months. In my resume I have put dates in front of experience section with only month and the year. I haven't mention exact joining date ( as I was not aware about a company can be really fussy about few days experience ). P.S. I haven't lied about anything, I just didn't mention the full details.

I have completed the technical interview and they offered me the place on the same day. When they verified my documents. They found i have less than a year experience i.e. 4 days less than a year. They said it is a company's policy.

I am surprised by the situation as the company is not considering my skills and ability to do the work and clearing the technical interview rather they are declining me for such a small reason.

My worry is, would it be any other reason for declining my application as this sound too lame to me and the company doesn't want to tell me the main reason. Shall I approach HR once again and ask them to negotiate?

manpreet 2 years ago

Forget about it and move on. They have already given you a reason for rejection. While I agree with you 100% that the reason is lame, pestering them to tell you the "real" reason is highly unlikely to bear fruit and would just be further waste of your time.

Moreover, as alroc says in the comment, if that is the real reason for rejection, you might have dodged a bullet here. If a company is so pedantic about the work experience, I wouldn't be surprised if they deduct a full day's salary because the employee put in 7h 59m of work instead of 8h, or took a lunch break for 30m 21s instead of 30m, and so on.