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This seems strange for a middle aged candidate, what are they looking for here? Communication skills? I wanna believe most people would pass unless they said t

• ChainOfFools 4y ago
  "My high school career was defined by the discovery in my early teens that I had been raised in an obscure Jesus People offshoot cult, followed by a several year process of distancing and extricating myself from this environment without excessively antagonizing my family. Coding was as much a stimulating intellectual challenge as it was a pretext for gradually increasing the time I spent away from both home and my customary social obligations, down at the library's computer lab." your move, interviewer.
• red-iron-pine 4y ago
  > This seems strange for a middle aged candidate, what are they looking for here? Communication skills? Culture fit, probably looking for a few keywords or experiences that match a profile. Seems fraught with peril from a legal perspective, IMO. Lotta hooks or opportunities for discrimination. OTOH I could also see the appeal, e.g. you're not the ideal-on-paper candidate, but you did a bunch of X and Y, had experience w/ Z, tell me about the other stuff, sell me a little. I'm not an MIT hyper-literati type but give me the chance to show why that doesn't matter, etc. etc.