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>A hypothesis: I think you walked into industry interviews acting as if you were hot shit and didn't successfully demonstrate to employers that you could be one
by lsc 13y ago
>A hypothesis: I think you walked into industry interviews acting as if you were hot shit and didn't successfully demonstrate to employers that you could be one of them. I.e., "I know the leading artificial intelligence language, I don't need to waste my time with Python."
Huh. I've found that I do much better at interviews when I try to act as "hot shit" as I possibly can. Of course, it's possible that me "turning it up to 11" just brings me into the acceptable range because of where I start. but still, I can not comprehend a level of arrogance that would get you shot down in a job interview.
- foobarian 13y ago> but still, I can not comprehend a level of arrogance that would get you shot down in a job interview. It must depend on the company. Where I work, we have a "no assholes" policy and acting like one would make it very very hard to get past the interviewers. Moreover they took me in spite of my Ph.D., and I didn't even know any programming languages they used. There is definitely more to this than the number of trendy bullet points on your resume.
- lsc 13y ago>It must depend on the company. Where I work, we have a "no assholes" policy and acting like one would make it very very hard to get past the interviewers. Everyone says that. Even people who end up hiring me over my shorter and less loud compatriots. Maybe I just don't make it to "asshole"? but there is a huge advantage to being tall and loud over being short and quiet.