India, May 18 -- A Bengaluru based data engineer has struck a chord on social media after sharing how he faced repeated rejections from Amazon before eventually landing a job at the tech giant.

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Taking to Instagram, the man, identified as Aritra, shared a clip in which he spoke about the emotional toll of job rejections and the importance of persistence. In the video, he introduced himself as a data engineer at Amazon and recalled how he had applied to the company several times over five years.

"No matter how much we tweak our resume, take referrals or prepare, we are still going to get rejected. Someone commented this on one of my Instagram videos. ...