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What did the cat do?

• weatherlite 4y ago
  It's on me really, I made the huge mistake of taking the interview when my child was sick and my super loud father in law and wife were in the house with my toddler child. It was after the interview was postponed twice and I didn't want to postpone it again. In addition to all the noise they made the cat hated it that I closed the door during the interview and kept meowing to be let in...if I had let her in she would have kept bumping into me but in retrospect that would have been better. The icing on the cake was I took a room in the house that had a lousy connection so I was disconnected twice during the Leetcode thing (I don't remember if it was Leetcode but it was one of those online coding platforms). It was such a disaster it was the first time ever I asked to stop the interview in the middle - I just gave up and was a complete sweaty mess lol. So lesson learned - important interview needs to be in an empty house. I don't have a great solution for the cat problem. Anyway I usually don't take interview failure that hard but this one was painful because my performance was so embarrassing and I cared about the job. Probably my poor performance was in direct proportion to how excited I was about the opportunity - too bad.
  • pineconewarrior 4y ago
    Sounds like this was great practice, even if the stakes were a bit high. (Definitely let the cat in! Every zoom meeting I am in has at least one cat, and it is a welcome distraction compared to all of the crying babies and other nonsense)
    • weatherlite 4y ago
      It was a good experience in the sense I find it very unlikely I'll ever have an interview worse than that - ever, unless the interviewer physically assaults me or something. So you live through a 45 minute ordeal and understand that life goes on, there's that.