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Nobody is looking for serious candidates
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon () orthanc ca>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:31:39 -0700
On Jun 10, 2015, at 8:39 PM, Stephen Satchell <list () satchell net> wrote:
After the phone screen, the company called me in for the face-to-face "interview". I put the word "interview" in quotes because, for 25 minutes, the chief programmer of the place played a video game he wrote. That was the extent of the interview!
Mmm hmm. E.g. I spent half+ an hour being grilled on the internals and efficiencies of various regular expression library implementations. '[a-z]' vs. '[:islower:]' or something equally irrelevant to the interview at hand, for a position creating/managing the kernel - not apps - for an email spam filtering appliance. The second half hour devolved into a rant by the interviewer about 'volatile' in whatever was the latest version of the ANSI C standard. You can have a lot of fun, though, by playing the interviewers. When you discover your interest in the company is a noop, steering things into the Brazil regime can generate endless entertainment ;-) In fact, fishing for silliness can produce plenty of results. --lyndon
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