Some of the contradictions and non sequitur points might be due to this piece being written by Jeff Giesea as an illustrative device, and not by an actual perso

Some of the contradictions and non sequitur points might be due to this piece being written by Jeff Giesea as an illustrative device, and not by an actual person-on-the-street. It's signed by "Everyone", so you could read the article as a cross-section of experiences brought to the interview process by a teeming mass of aspirants. As for Giesea's point he's trying to make with this article, what I took away from my reading of it was "don't judge a book by its cover".