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These things can always be childish when working with a bad interviewer. I once had an engineer keep interrupting me while I was explaining how sockets work be

These things can always be childish when working with a bad interviewer. I once had an engineer keep interrupting me while I was explaining how sockets work because I wasn't covering small minutia details. Interviewing is an insane process. This is why building networks is more valuable so you're basically being interviewed by people you've already worked with.

hinkley 7y ago
I get too distracted wondering if these people are always like this or just in interviews. The silver lining is that I don't get jobs where the interviewers make me uncomfortable, so I don't have to deal with them more than once.
bsg75 7y ago
> I once had an engineer keep interrupting me while I was explaining how sockets work because I wasn't covering small minutia details. I'm going to be in trouble when it comes time to interview again someday. I am not nearly as accepting of muscle flexing (anti-social behavior) as I was 10 years ago.
- lacampbell 7y ago
  You and me both. I had to walk out of an interview because the interviewer had become borderline rude and I could not think of anything at all professional to respond with. Here's to future self-employment!
  - oarabbus_ 7y ago
    How'd you walk out? "Sorry, but I'd like to respect both of our time and end my candidacy here"?
    - lacampbell 7y ago
      I literally shot up out of my seat, offered my hand and said 'thanks for your time!' and got the hell out of there. Not the smoothest, but it was just time for me to leave.
- posixplz 7y ago
  Makes me appreciate working for a large cloud with a core value “don’t be a jerk.”
  - baseballMan 7y ago
    Is this Microsoft? If so, good to know they've adopted this policy!
    - jfz 7y ago
      Sounds like Pivotal, which literally has "Be Kind" as one of the three core values.
    - posixplz 7y ago
      Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, actually. Oracle gets a lot of flak on HN, and some of it is justified. But the reality is that the team working on OCI is top-notch. And the product itself is quite compelling. Oracle as an enterprise/legal behemoth is very different from the cloud transformation business unit.
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imtringued 7y ago
Sockets are easy. First there was the big bang...

hinkley 7y ago

I get too distracted wondering if these people are always like this or just in interviews. The silver lining is that I don't get jobs where the interviewers make me uncomfortable, so I don't have to deal with them more than once.

bsg75 7y ago

> I once had an engineer keep interrupting me while I was explaining how sockets work because I wasn't covering small minutia details. I'm going to be in trouble when it comes time to interview again someday. I am not nearly as accepting of muscle flexing (anti-social behavior) as I was 10 years ago.

lacampbell 7y ago
You and me both. I had to walk out of an interview because the interviewer had become borderline rude and I could not think of anything at all professional to respond with. Here's to future self-employment!
- oarabbus_ 7y ago
  How'd you walk out? "Sorry, but I'd like to respect both of our time and end my candidacy here"?
  - lacampbell 7y ago
    I literally shot up out of my seat, offered my hand and said 'thanks for your time!' and got the hell out of there. Not the smoothest, but it was just time for me to leave.
posixplz 7y ago
Makes me appreciate working for a large cloud with a core value “don’t be a jerk.”
- baseballMan 7y ago
  Is this Microsoft? If so, good to know they've adopted this policy!
  - jfz 7y ago
    Sounds like Pivotal, which literally has "Be Kind" as one of the three core values.
  - posixplz 7y ago
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, actually. Oracle gets a lot of flak on HN, and some of it is justified. But the reality is that the team working on OCI is top-notch. And the product itself is quite compelling. Oracle as an enterprise/legal behemoth is very different from the cloud transformation business unit.

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imtringued 7y ago

Sockets are easy. First there was the big bang...