Happens at smaller companies too. I just finished a round of job interviews, and interviewed at several smaller companies that didn't give a shit, they had thei

Happens at smaller companies too. I just finished a round of job interviews, and interviewed at several smaller companies that didn't give a shit, they had their own pet processes for hiring and didn't care about anything I did beyond the most recent two jobs. At one of them the guy was the epitome of what I would call "friendly condescending", spending half the interview pontificating on why the vast majority of developers don't understand what they're doing and should spend all their free time having a deep philosophical understanding of their work and suggesting I might be amongst those idiots (I'm really not doing a great job of selling it, he went on and on elaborating all the ways in which all developers but him were lacking and how he couldn't find anyone worthy of working at the company), but with a smile on his face the entire time. To be fair he did call himself "the asshole at the company" during the interview, though. The two job offers I got were from larger companies, but I talked to some younger guys working there that liked video games and sci-fi novels and going to a summer camp hosted by a popular 80s/90s band and DSLR photography, etc. and being able to talk about those things even a little bit may have helped them get excited about me, actually :) Also helped I did well on their coding tests, though.