Just want to rant. I applied for a job listed as “mid-level” with a pretty high salary for the industry. Quick background of myself, I’ve been working for 3 years as a software implementation consultant for a major semiconductor manufacturing company. I did the whole process… resume with a high ATS score, messaging the hiring coordinator with the subject of something we had in common, etc. This was over a month ago, and by now I just assumed they didn’t select me to move on, no big deal. Until today I got a message back from the hiring director, saying thank you for applying but we already filled the position. Sure, whatever. I look at the company’s LinkedIn, the person they hired is fresh out of college, so much much less qualified than I am. I want to assume they didn’t really care about experience and got them for a low salary but dang not even getting an interview hurts. This is just my first time dealing with something like this so it is quite discouraging. I hate my job and just working in general and just want to find a company to actually value me as a person.