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Ah, so you're saying you're financially and emotionally secure enough not to be completely discombobulated by this incredible display of disrespect? Good for y

Ah, so you're saying you're financially and emotionally secure enough not to be completely discombobulated by this incredible display of disrespect? Good for you I guess, but maybe don't apply your own mental blueprint to the rest of the world. Recommending candidates have thicker skin isn't really great a way to improve hiring in general.

Hnrobert42 5y ago
An incredible display of disrespect? It might be rude, but that’s about it. Depending on the tone of voice, it could have been intended as a way to relieve the author’s tension. It does sound a bit annoying, but if that is the author’s worst interviewing experience, it’s not that bad.
- markmark 5y ago
  On reading it my thought was the interviewer was making a small joke to put the author at ease: "Ah, you've forgotten some semis, you're probably writing a lot of swift at the moment, it's okay". But he was in the room and I wasn't, so I can only trust his interpretation.
ProjectArcturis 5y ago
How is a lame joke about Swift an "incredible display of disrespect"?
grepfru_it 5y ago
i'm not sure you can jump to that conclusion either. there takes a certain level of maturity both emotional and financial at certain skill levels. a psychologist once pointed out to me that actors are able to take their nervousness and translate it into energy to use in the moment. at a point in my career i faced a similar dilemma but handled it completely differently than i had earlier. someone made a snide comment "but why would you use bash for this?" and i was able to take it in stride and the result of that comment got me the job. but at the start of my career i may have reacted negatively, i may have clammed up and stammered my way through the rest of the interview etc (i didn't get those jobs). could you imagine being in front of a C-level exec or a $300M customer and being discombobulated? no one wants to hire an insecure pre-sales engineer etc EDIT: i'm assuming engineering levels beyond senior. my past experiences have been around principal/architect roles which require a 'tough skin'. i would not expect rude remarks to a SE1 or SE2 and if that was the role, i would leave flustered with a bad taste in my mouth as well
throwaway675309 5y ago
Dial the rhetoric down, we can't really read the "context" in which this line was delivered by the interviewer. Glib? Sure. Incredible display of disrespect? Give me a break.

Hnrobert42 5y ago

An incredible display of disrespect? It might be rude, but that’s about it. Depending on the tone of voice, it could have been intended as a way to relieve the author’s tension. It does sound a bit annoying, but if that is the author’s worst interviewing experience, it’s not that bad.

markmark 5y ago
On reading it my thought was the interviewer was making a small joke to put the author at ease: "Ah, you've forgotten some semis, you're probably writing a lot of swift at the moment, it's okay". But he was in the room and I wasn't, so I can only trust his interpretation.

ProjectArcturis 5y ago

How is a lame joke about Swift an "incredible display of disrespect"?

grepfru_it 5y ago

i'm not sure you can jump to that conclusion either. there takes a certain level of maturity both emotional and financial at certain skill levels. a psychologist once pointed out to me that actors are able to take their nervousness and translate it into energy to use in the moment. at a point in my career i faced a similar dilemma but handled it completely differently than i had earlier. someone made a snide comment "but why would you use bash for this?" and i was able to take it in stride and the result of that comment got me the job. but at the start of my career i may have reacted negatively, i may have clammed up and stammered my way through the rest of the interview etc (i didn't get those jobs). could you imagine being in front of a C-level exec or a $300M customer and being discombobulated? no one wants to hire an insecure pre-sales engineer etc EDIT: i'm assuming engineering levels beyond senior. my past experiences have been around principal/architect roles which require a 'tough skin'. i would not expect rude remarks to a SE1 or SE2 and if that was the role, i would leave flustered with a bad taste in my mouth as well

throwaway675309 5y ago

Dial the rhetoric down, we can't really read the "context" in which this line was delivered by the interviewer. Glib? Sure. Incredible display of disrespect? Give me a break.