> Hopefully in your realistic setting, the challenge comes from the difficult tasks you are given to solve, not some jerk that's sniping at you from the sidelin

> Hopefully in your realistic setting, the challenge comes from the difficult tasks you are given to solve, not some jerk that's sniping at you from the sidelines. I wish I could say that's true. If you're getting sniped from the sidelines in your interview, it's probably a part of the culture where you are interviewing. So it's quite likely to be a non trivial part of the problem you're solving.